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Fürstenberg Castle (german: Burg Fürstenberg or simply ''Fürstenberg'', literally "Prince's Hill") is a castle in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
,
Germany
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. It is located on the ''Fürstenberg'' hill in the
Baar region, near the town of
Hüfingen
Hüfingen (Low Alemannic: ''Hifinge'') is a town in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Breg, 4 km south of the source of the Danube.
History
Hüfingen has the historical distinct ...
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The castle was first mentioned in a deed of 1175 as a possession of the
House of Zähringen
The House of Zähringen (german: Zähringer) was a dynasty of Swabian nobility. The family's name derived from Zähringen Castle near Freiburg im Breisgau. The Zähringer in the 12th century used the title of Duke of Zähringen, in compensation ...
, which became extinct with the death of Duke
Berthold V
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. Around 1250, his heir Count Henry of
Urach made it his residence and thereafter was the first to call himself a
Count of Fürstenberg. The castle was devastated in the
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history
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, and it was never rebuilt.
Fürstenberg family residences
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