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12 unusual facts about Wolfegg


Bartholomäus Aich

His only surviving work is the musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris (The Comic Armory of Love and Honor), written on the occasion of the wedding of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg, that took place in Lindau on December 6, 1648.

Kleiner Klebeband

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg (1604–1667) started to collect the drawings of the Kleiner Klebeband from 1650 until his death.

In fall 2011 the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und museums of the city of Augsburg bought them from the family Waldburg-Wolfegg and in December of the same year they were shown to the public for the first time in a special exhibition.

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg

At the time of his death his collection comprised over 120,000 graphics among them such famous pieces as the Kleiner Klebeband and the Mittelalterliches Hausbuch.

Their wedding celebrations saw the performance of armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris by Bartholomäus Aich, which is considered to be one of the oldest German operatic compositions.

As he lacked the funds for an immediate repair, he moved to Amberg, where he accepted the job as a governor of Upper Palatinate.

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg (1604–1667) was the head of the house of Waldburg-Wolfegg, military commander and the governor of Upper Palatinate for the Electorate of Bavaria.

Today however he is mostly remembered as an art collector and for having founded the Wolfegger Kabinett.

Schloss Wolfegg

Since the owner Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg was short of funds, the restoration of the castle was delayed until 1651.

Waldburg-Waldburg

Waldburg-Waldburg was a partition of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil and was divided between the other two parts of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil — Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldburg-Zeil — in 1660.

Waldburg-Wolfegg

Waldburg-Wolfegg was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Wolfegg

The map remained at the castle until 2001 when the Waldburg-Wolfegg family sold it to the U.S. Library of Congress.


Bad Wurzach

The communities are, beginning in the north and going clockwise, Eberhardzell and Rot an der Rot in the county Biberach, and Aitrach, Aichstetten, Leutkirch im Allgäu, Kißlegg, Wolfegg and Bad Waldsee in the county Ravensburg.

Heggbach Abbey

In 1875 the property was bought by Prince Franz von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee who left the buildings to Franciscan sisters from the convent in Reute in 1884.