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Wirtemberg Castle, a ruined hilltop castle, is the second family seat of the House of Württemberg, whose ancestors had abandoned Beutelsbach Castle (also known as "Kappelberg Castle"). Built on the eponymous Württemberg mountain in a spur of the Schurwald around 411 m (1,348 ft) above sea level, it is located in the current municipality of ...
Wirtemberg Castle, upon whose site the Mausoleum was built. In early 1819, Catherine, sick with a cold, lanced a blister on her lip. The blister became infected and rapidly led to her death by stroke. [3] The Württemberg was the site of the ancestral castle of the House of Württemberg. [6]
Conrad of Württemberg became heir to the House of Beutelsbach and built the Wirtemberg Castle. Around 1089, he was made Count. Around 1089, he was made Count. Their domains, initially only the immediate surroundings of the castle included, increased steadily, mainly through acquisitions such as those from impoverished homes of Tübingen .
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About 1083 Conrad built a castle on the Wirtemberg close to today's Stuttgart. He made this place his domicile and named himself after it. Under his new name Conrad was a witness some time between 1089 and 1092 to the so-called Bempflinger Vertrag (treaty) of the counts Kuno and Liutold von Achalm with their nephew, count Wernher von Grüningen.
The new Wirtemberg Castle (castle chapel dedicated in 1083) was the central point of a rule that extended from the Neckar and Rems valleys in all directions over the centuries. [ 6 ] Eberhard I, Count of Württemberg opposed, sometimes successfully, three Holy Roman emperors.
Castle Wirtemberg (around 1600) on a postcard of 1920. Konrad II (died 1143) was Count of Württemberg.He reigned from 1110 until 1143. [1] He served as marshal of Swabia [2] and advocate of the town of Ulm, and had large possessions in the valleys of the Neckar and the Rems.