Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Hohenzollern - Hechingen was a county first from 1576 and from 1623 to 1850 with the Principality of residence town. Before the County of Hohenzollern - Hechingen County ( High ) existed Zollern. The area is the family seat of the Hohenzollern Hohenzollern - Hechingen was dar. territorial largely unchanged. As the last Prince of Hohenzollern - Hechingen laid since 1576 Constantine 1849, the business of government down. The seizure was made by Prussia in 1850. Likewise once existed in parallel with the Principality of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen.
History
→ Prehistory to see Swabian Hohenzollern
The progenitor of the line was Hechingischen Eitel Frederick IV (* 1545, † 1605 ), son of Count Charles I of Hohenzollern. Eitel Friedrich inherited the family seat of the Hohenzollern and moved the seat of government to Hechingen. The count had built a castle, where later was built the New Castle in Hechingen. The town of Hechingen was founded in 1255 by the Hohenzollern.
Eitel Frederick's son Johann Georg was in 1623 charged by Emperor Ferdinand II in the Imperial Prince. In extremely friendly formulated diploma is determined, the following first-born are also princes. Now was Hohenzollern - Hechingen a gefürstete county, which meant that the family had almost all property rights and the Emperor and the Empire, no influence was allowed. A few manageable payments from old commitments were still to be accomplished. After the death of Johann Georg the regency passed to his son Eitel Friedrich II. He died childless, so his brother Philipp new prince was. Philip was first provided for a spiritual career and became a canon of Cologne and Strasbourg. He succeeded his brother in 1661 as a prince.
In the next generation with Frederick William as effected by Emperor Leopold I greatly improved legal situation in the succession of the younger sons and their descendants became established. So far, the Imperial Prince, was associated with the law of primogeniture. Now, even the youngest children and their descendants had the opportunity of succession. The next Prince Friedrich Ludwig died in 1750 childless. Now already been made use of the possibility, dsss not only the firstborn and his descendants could become princes. Josef Friedrich Wilhelm, a cousin of the last regent, took the lead responsibility. The marriages of Prince Joseph Friedrich Wilhelm remained childless, and his nephew Hermann came to power in 1798. In the same year, serfdom was abolished in the Principality. Through the secularization Hermann received, among others, the monastery Stetten. Hohenzollern - Hechingen was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and was no longer a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Hermann's son Frederick was then 1810 new prince. During his reign, Hohenzollern - Hechingen joined the established at the Congress of Vienna German Confederation.
The Principality was not mediatised 1806, which was by no means obvious at 14,000 inhabitants. Area gains on Reichsdeputationshauptschluss were low in Hohenzollern - Hechingen. In the Principality of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen, ruled from another family member, be it behaved differently. The Administration has been transformed into Hohenzollern - Hechingen peu à peu, and 1848, the administration of justice and the administration was organized separately. In the period before the reform, the princely authorities alleged offices took both tasks together. The Principality was until 1808 the territory of the Swabian kingdom circle.
The last Duke Constantine reigned until 7 December 1849. Thereafter Hohenzollern - Hechingen was a part of Prussia, which took over the principality on April 8, 1850. It belonged then to the administrative district of Sigmaringen, to the Hohenzollern lands. Duke Constantine was buried in the collegiate church of St. Jakob in Hechingen, the grave lay the Hohenzollern. During the French occupation after the Second World War, the country Württemberg-Hohenzollern was established with its capital in Tübingen, to which the former principality then belonged. 1952, the State of Baden- Württemberg was created.
New Castle ( Hechingen )
Villa Eugenia in Hechingen
Location and management
Hohenzollern - Hechingen bordered on the west and east by the Principality of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen and the north and south to the Kingdom of Württemberg. In addition, the exclave Wilflingen belonged to the territory. The Principality counted in 1849 about 20,000 inhabitants, the capital of Hechingen approximately 3,000 inhabitants. The Hohenzollern top offices were responsible for the administration of Hohenzollern- Hechingen and Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen. In Hohenzollern - Hechingen was merely the chief official Hechingen for the management of the entire country. The highest court was in 1825 the Upper Tribunal in Stuttgart. Previously the top of Appeals had the same position in Darmstadt. The population was usually Catholic. In Hechingen existed a Jewish community.
Regent of Hohenzollern- Hechingen
As regent of Hohenzollern- Hechingen had:
- Eitel Friedrich I. ( IV ) (* 1545, † 1605 )
- Johann Georg (* 1577, † 1623)
- Eitel Friedrich II (* 1601, † 1661)
- Philip (* 1616, † 1671)
- Friedrich Wilhelm ( * 1663, † 1735)
- Friedrich Ludwig ( * 1688, † 1750)
- Josef Friedrich Wilhelm ( * 1717, † 1798)
- Hermann ( * 1751, † 1810)
- Friedrich ( * 1776, † 1838)
- Constantine (* 1801, † 1869)