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unusual facts about County of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen



Beda Weber

He received calls to professorships from the University of Innsbruck, from the Benedictine Lyceum at Augsburg, and from the crown-prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, but remained at Meran until he was called away by the political events of 1848.

Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern

The third son, Christopher, founded the Hohenzollern-Haigerloch line, which died out in 1634, with Christopher's share falling to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

Charles II, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Charles II was married to Euphrosyne of Oettingen-Wallerstein and later to Elisabeth of Cuylenburg.

Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

When Charles I died in 1576, the County of Hohenzollern was divided into Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Christopher studied law together with his brother Charles II (1547-1606) studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Bourges.

Corinne Luchaire

After World War II, Corinne attempted suicide then escaped to Sigmaringen, Germany and Merano, Italy, but she and her father were arrested in May 1945 and imprisoned at Fresnes.

Francis Christopher Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

His elder brother Ferdinand Leopold was also at various times canon of several cathedral chapters, first minister of Cologne, and ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Francis Christopher Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (16 January 1699 in Haigerloch – 23 November 1767 in Cologne) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

From 1750 until his death, he was also the ruling count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

He was the son of Count Francis Anthony of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch and his wife Anna Maria Eusebia of Königsegg-Aulendorf.

Franz Xavier Wernz

He entered the Society on December 5, 1857, made his novitiate at Gorheim near Sigmaringen, and took his first Vows on December 8, 1859.

Johann Evangelist Götz

Johann Evangelist Götz (Polish: Jan Ewangelista Goetz; born November 16, 1815, Langenenslingen in the County of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, died March 14, 1893, in Brzesko, Poland) was a German-Polish brewer, the founder of the Okocim Brewery and father of Jan Albin Goetz (also known as Jan Albin Goetz-Okocimiski) and the grandfather of Antoni Jan Goetz (Antoni Jan Goetz-Okocimiski).

Joseph Frederick Ernest, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Prince Joseph Ernst Friedrich Karl Anton Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (24 May 1702 in Sigmaringen – 8 December 1769 at Haag Castle, Haigerloch), was the fifth Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

In Haigerloch, which he preferred as a residence over Sigmaringen, he built the St Anna's Church.

Krauchenwies

In 1595, Charles II bought Krauchenwies, which has been closely tied to the county of Sigmaringen ever since.

Line of succession to the former Romanian throne

In a 2009 interview, Karl Friedrich, then Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, stated that he was not interested in the Romanian throne.

Operation Big

His team reached Horb three days later and headed for Haigerloch while the French troops occupied themselves with looking for members of the Vichy Government in nearby Sigmaringen.

Ostrach

In 1803, in the German Mediatisation, Ostrach and Bachhaupten passed into the hands of the house of Thurn und Taxis, and in 1806 they were incorporated into the lands of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment

The 1st and 2nd battalions were transferred on 5 October 1848 to Sigmaringen in Marsch, to protect Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and to depose the provisional government there.


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