Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems
The line of the Counts of Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau- Hohenems originating from the house of the princes of Waldburg-Zeil -Trauchburg, one of the numerous lines of the original Welfish - Staufer ministerial family Waldburg , was founded in 1779 through the marriage of Countess Maria Walpurga von Harrach -Rohrau -Hohenems (1762–1828) founded with Count Clemens Maximilian zu Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg (1753–1817).
ancestry
The progenitor Clemens Maximilian was a brother of Maximilian Wunibald, the ruling imperial count of Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg. His wife Maria Walpurga von Harrach -Rohrau-Hohenems (1762–1828) was the heiress of Maria Rebecca Countess von Harrach-Hohenems (1742–1806), who in turn was the heiress of the Counts of Hohenems . In 1813, Clemens Maximilian adopted Maximilian Clemens, son of his brother Maximilian Wunibald (who had been the first ruling prince of Waldburg-Zeil since 1803).
Maximilian Clemens had to renounce (according to § 1 of the will of 1813) "all inheritance claims of his princely ancestral home" (according to the domiciliary rights of the princes of Waldburg). With this waiver in the direction of Zeil, the independence of the Lustenau-Hohenems line was confirmed.
History of the County of Lustenau-Hohenems
Lustenau, under the ruling Count of Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems, fell to Bavaria on September 1, 1806 after the end of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1811 and 1813, Bavaria had to cede sovereign rights to Waldburg. On July 6, 1814, Austria set up a provisional administration in Lustenau. Bavaria and Waldburg-Zeil protested. On March 14, 1817, Lustenau was again transferred to Waldburg-Zeil. In view of financial burdens and the resulting sovereign waiver by Count Maximilian, Lustenau's independence was finally transferred to Austria in 1830.
Trunk line of the Lustenau-Hohenems line
- Franz Wilhelm Maximilian III, ruling Count of Hohenems (1692–1759)
Connection via Hohenems to Harrach-Hohenems:
- Maria Rebecca, ruling Countess of Harrach-Hohenems (1742–1806)
Connection via Harrach-Hohenems to Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems:
- Maria Walburga, ruling Countess of Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems (1762–1828)
- Clemens von Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems (1753-1817), from 1806 ruling Count of Lustenau
- Maximilian Clemens (1799–1869), ruling count until 1830, (son of the first ruling prince, was adopted by his uncle in 1813, inherited the possessions of Hohenems and Lustenau in 1817)
- Clemens Maximilian (1842–1904)
- Maximilian Wunibald Waldburg-Zeil (1870–1930)
- Georg Waldburg-Zeil (1878–1955), brother of Maximilian Wunibald. He was married to the Habsburg women Elisabeth and, after their death, to her sister Gertrud . In 1913 he acquired Syrgenstein Castle from his aunt Sophie Countess von Waldburg-Syrgenstein
- Franz Josef Waldburg-Zeil (* 1927), "head of the family", acquired the Hohenems estate from his cousins
Castles and palaces owned by the family
- Hohenems Palace , Vorarlberg
- Glopper Castle ( Neu-Ems Castle ), Vorarlberg
- Syrgenstein Castle , Heimenkirch , Allgäu
- Alt-Ems castle ruins , Hohenems
- Persenbeug Castle , Ybbs- Persenpeug, Lower Austria
Offices and imperial estates of the Waldburg-Zeil line
- 1140 taverns and offices of the clerks
- 1452 Counts of Waldburg-Scheer
- 1463 Imperial Count of the County of Sonnenberg
- 1525 Reichserbtruchsessenamt
- 1628 Imperial Counts of Waldburg and von Zeil
- 1803 to 1806 imperial princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg, Waldburg-Zeil and Waldburg-Wurzach to the principality of Waldburg
- 1806 to 1830 ruling Counts of Lustenau in Vorarlberg
literature
- Priscilla Waldburg-Zeil: The palace of Hohenems light and shadow. From the family history of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems and Schönborn-Wiesentheid. Self-published, Hohenems 2004 ISBN 963-86305-9-0
- Max Graf zu Waldburg-Wolfegg: The Waldburg in Swabia. Jan Thorbecke Verlag der Schwabenverlag AG, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-1069-1 .
- Eugen Mack: Emperor Franz II. Raises the Reichserbtruchsessenhaus Waldburg to the rank of imperial prince March 21, 1803. Wolfegg, Württbg., Seeblatt-Druck.-Friedrichshafen aB