House of Fürstenberg (Swabia)
The House of Fürstenberg is an old and influential Swabian noble house in Germany, based primarily in what is today southern Baden-Württemberg near the source of the Danube river. Numerous members of the family have risen to prominence over the centuries as soldiers, churchmen, diplomats, and academics. Sometimes the name is gallicized as de Furstenberg or anglicized as Furstenberg.
Urach Castle
The principality of Fürstenberg, composed of the counties of Baar, Stühlingen and Heiligenberg, c. 1800
The Princely Palace in Donaueschingen
Schloss Heiligenberg, Germany
Principality of Fürstenberg
Fürstenberg was a county, and later a principality (Fürstentum), of the Holy Roman Empire in Swabia, which was located in present-day southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its ruling family was the House of Fürstenberg.
Fürstenberg territories in 1806
Image: Egon IV von Urach
Image: Egon II von Freiburg
Image: Konrad I Graf von Freiburg