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LOWENSTEIN

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 78 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LOWENSTEIN , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg,
capital
  of the mediatized county of that name, situated under the north slope of the Lowenstein range, 6 m. from Heilbronn. Pop. 1527. It is dominated by the ruined castle of the
counts
  of Lowenstein, and enclosed by medieval walls. The town contains many picturesque old houses. There is also a modern palace. The cultivation of vines is the
chief
  industry, and there is a brine
spring
  (Theusserbad).
Lowenstein was founded in 1123 by the
counts
  of Calw, and belonged to the Habsburgs from 1281 to 1441. In 1634 the castle was destroyed by the imperialists. The county of Lowenstein belonged to a branch of the family of the counts of Calw before 1281, when it was purchased by the German king Rudolph I., who presented it to his natural son Albert. In 1441
Henry
 , one of Albert's descendants, sold it to the elector palatine of the Rhine, Frederick I., and later it served as a portion for Louis (d. 1524), a son of the elector by a morganatic
marriage
 , who became a count of the Empire in 1494. Louis's grandson Louis II. (d. 1611) inherited the county of Wertheim and other lands by
marriage
  and called himself count of Lowenstein-Wertheim; his two sons divided the family into two branches. The heads of the two branches, into which the older and
Protestant
  line was afterwards divided, were made princes by the
king of Bavaria in 1812 and by the king of Wurttemberg in 1813; the head of the younger, or Roman Catholic line, was made a prince of the Empire in 1711. Both lines are flourishing, their present representatives being Ernst (b. 1854) prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, and Aloyse (b. 1871) prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. The lands of the family were mediatized after the dissolution of the Empire in 18o6. The area of the county of Lowenstein was about 53 sq. m.
See C. Rommel, Grundzuge einer Chronik der Stadt Lowenstein (Lowenstein, 1893).


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