Waldberg

Waldberg was the estate of the House of Waldburg in Upper Swabia, centered on its hilltop castle above Waldburg. The family had risen as stewards of the Hohenstaufen emperors.

In 1525 Georg Truchsess von Waldburg led the Swabian League against the peasants and crushed their army at Böblingen. His kinsman Gebhard, Elector of Cologne, triggered the Cologne War in 1583 by marrying and embracing Protestantism. The family became imperial counts in 1628 and retained estates and titles after mediatisation in 1806.