As Austria along with Bavaria, Württemberg and Baden were expected to join in a revenge war against Prussia, I Corps would invade the Bavarian Palatinate and proceed to " free " the South German states in concert with Austro-Hungarian forces.

At Vienna, Frederick and his ministers were very concerned to make sure that Württemberg would be able to retain all the territories it had gained in the past fifteen years.

The left wing of the Grande Armée would move from Hanover and Utrecht to fall on Württemberg ; the right and centre, troops from the Channel coast, would concentrate along the Middle Rhine around cities like Mannheim and Strasbourg.

Realising that the war in Germany was not going to end quickly and that the Rhineland blitz would not be a brief and decisive parade of French glory, Louis XIV and Louvois resolved upon a scorched-earth policy in the Palatinate, Baden and Württemberg, intent on denying enemy troops local resources and prevent them invading French territory.

In December, 1535, the league admitted anyone who would subscribe to the Augsburg Confession, thus Anhalt, Württemberg, Pomerania, as well as the free imperial cities of Augsburg, Hanover, Frankfurt am Main, and Kempten joined the alliance.

He invited the Jesuits to Salzburg and asked for help from the emperor, and finally ordered the Protestants to recant or emigrate-about 30, 000 people left and settled in Württemberg, Hanover and East Prussia, and a few settled in Ebenezer, Georgia in what would become the United States of America.

One example would be Nietzsche's term Übermensch, discussed below ; another example is the Deutschlandlied, which begins with the well-known words " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles " meaning " Germany, Germany above everything " ( this strophe is not sung anymore, because it is mistaken as meaning " Germany above the rest of the world "; its original meaning was the German nation above its constituent states Hanover, Württemberg etc.

General of Division Dominique Vandamme would attack Siegenburg with his small Kingdom of Württemberg corps.

While the 2nd duke of Urach was technically the senior male descendant in the Württemberg royal family, it had already been decided that the succession would pass to his cousin Albrecht because of the morganatic marriage of the parents of the first duke of Urach.

Weizsäcker was born in Stuttgart to Karl Hugo von Weizsäcker, who would become Minister President ( Prime Minister ) of the Kingdom of Württemberg and raised to personal nobility in 1897, and Paula von Meibom.

# Frederick I ( 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816 ), his successor, who would later become the first King of Württemberg ; he was married to a niece, and then a daughter, of George III of England ;

Dr Wilhelm Weinberg ( Stuttgart, December 25, 1862 – Tübingen, November 27, 1937 ) was a German half-Jewish physician and obstetrician-gynecologist, practicing in Stuttgart, who in a 1908 paper ( Jahresheft des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg ( Annals of the Society of the National Natural History in Württemberg ) published in German, expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

Other states of the German Empire created similar entities, named Kreishauptmannschaft ( in Saxony ) or Kreis ( in Bavaria and Württemberg ) ( not to be confused with the Kreis or Landkreis today ).

The origin of Faust's name and persona remains unclear ; though it is widely assumed to be based on the figure of Dr. Johann Georg Faust ( c. 1480 – 1540 ), a magician and alchemist probably from Knittlingen, Württemberg, who obtained a degree in divinity from Heidelberg University in 1509.

Württemberg happened to be in the path of French and Austrian armies engaged in the long rivalry between the Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.

By 1798, once more in Munich, he rose to the position of assistant Kapellmeister in one of the most important musical centers of Europe, but in 1807, unhappy at the treatment he received at court and despairing of any further advancement, he left Munich to be Kapellmeister in the smaller and less important Stuttgart court of the new king of Württemberg, Frederick I.

In 1810, Ulm was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg and lost its districts on the other bank of the Danube, which came to be known as Neu-Ulm ( New Ulm ).

The play alludes to a German duke, who is generally thought to be Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, who had visited England in 1592 and was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1597 ( and who was eventually only installed in Stuttgart on 6 November 1603 ).

: ( d ) The remaining portion of Germany should be divided into two autonomous, independent states, ( 1 ) a South German state comprising Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and some smaller areas and ( 2 ) a North German state comprising a large part of the old state of Prussia, Saxony, Thuringia and several smaller states.

In 1794 legislation was enacted in the Prussian Parliament which was accepted by the other states of Germany ( except Württemberg and Mecklenburg ), under which all German authors, and foreign authors whose works were represented by publishers taking part in the book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig, were to be protected throughout the states of Germany against unauthorized reprints.

When in 1815 Württemberg was to be granted a new constitution, his lyrics in praise of liberty were received with enthusiasm.

The Länder North Rhine-Westfalia, Baden Württemberg and Berlin have initiated a system where prostitutes have to pay their taxes in advance, a set amount per day, to be collected and paid to tax authorities by the brothel owners.

His life may be divided into four parts: his youth and cloister life ( 1488 – 1504 ); his wanderings in pursuit of knowledge ( 1504 – 1515 ); his strife with Ulrich of Württemberg ( 1515 – 1519 ); and his connection with the Reformation ( 1510 – 1523 ).

But the earliest records for Trollinger growing in the Württemberg region can only be traced back to 14th century.

He also tested cannon for the Army of Württemberg, some of which can still be seen at Lichtenstein Castle, which he substantially rebuilt in the 1840s.

Thus, according to the Württemberg Kirchenordnung of 1553, a funeral procession was prescribed, the bier being followed by the congregation singing hymns ; the Brandenburg Kirchenordnung ( 1540 ) directed a cross-bearer to precede the procession and lighted candles to be carried, and this was prescribed also by the Waldeck Kirchenordnung of 1556.

Other volcanic hills more or less like those of Auvergne are also known to geologists as puys ; examples may be found in the Eifel and in the small cones on the Bay of Naples, whilst the relics of puys denuded by erosion are numerous in the Swabian Alps of Württemberg, as pointed out by W. Branco.

As part of the mediatization, Achstetten became temporarily part of Bavaria in 1805, only to be handed over to the newly formed Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

This is likely to be found somewhere in Württemberg, Germany as during the late 1500s and the early part of the 1600s, almost all recorded Lehrer, birth, death and marriages appear to be located in what was then the kingdom of Wurttemberg, which is now a part of Germany.

As Empress, she helped as much as possible her numerous poor relations, some of whom, for example her brother, Alexander of Württemberg ( 1771 – 1833 ), were invited to Russia.

He had wanted to name these Mt Mueller and Lake Ferdinand respectively, to honour his benefactor Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, however Mueller prevailed on him to instead honour the King Amadeus of Spain and Queen Olga of Württemberg.

The origin of the name Württemberg remains obscure: scholars having universally rejected the once popular derivation from " Wirth am Berg ".

The Hohenstaufen family controlled the duchy of Swabia until the death of Conradin in 1268, when a considerable part of its lands fell to the count of Württemberg, the representative of a family first mentioned in about 1080, a certain Conrad von Beutelsbach, who took the name from his ancestral castle of Württemberg.

After his first wife died in childbirth, his mother arranged another marriage on 7 October 1776, with the beautiful Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg, given the new name Maria Feodorovna.

*** Free People's State of Württemberg, the official name of the state of Württemberg during the Weimar Republic

Giles had originally wanted to name these Lakes Ferdinand and Mt Mueller, but Mueller prevailed upon Giles to name them Lake Amadeus, after King Amadeus of Spain, and Mt Olga, after Queen Olga of Württemberg, both of whom had granted him honours.

By the end of the 15th century the family ’ s permanent name was Schenk von Stauffenberg, which refers to Burg Stauffenberg, a former castle situated by a small cone-shaped mountain of the same name between the small town of Hechingen and its suburb Rangendingen in Land Württemberg.

The Princess of Württemberg shared with her not only a similar education, but also the same original name and place of birth.

* Altdorf, the name of Weingarten ( Württemberg ) until 1865

* Princess Charlotte of Württemberg ( 1807 – 1873 ), wife of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia under the name Elena Pavlovna

Teck was a ducal castle in the kingdom of Württemberg, immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck ( now in the district of Esslingen ), taking its name from the ridge, 2544 feet high, which it crowned.

After 1952, when the states of Baden and Württemberg were merged into Baden-Württemberg, the Württemberg capital Stuttgart becoming capital of the new state, Karlsruhe not only remained capital of a government district of the same name, but in compensation became " Residenz des Rechts " ( residence of law ) for all Germany, seating the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice.

Its profession, made under the name of Duke Christopher of Württemberg, and entitled the " Württemberg Confession ," was sent to the Council of Trent, in 1552, but had not been formally accepted as the Ubiquitarian creed until the synod at Stuttgart.

Initially, it was planned as a city palace ( Stadtpalais ) of Duke Philipp of Württemberg ( 1838-1917 ) and his spouse Duchess Marie Therese ( 1845-1927 ), née Archduchess of Austria, and its original name was Palais Württemberg.