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Werdenberg (Holy Roman Empire)

Index Werdenberg (Holy Roman Empire)

Werdenberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire situated on either side of the Rhine, including parts of what is now St. Gallen (Switzerland), Liechtenstein, and Vorarlberg (Austria). [1]

25 relations: Alpine Rhine, Austria, Brandis, Germany, Bregenz, Canton of St. Gallen, Counts of Montfort, County of Sargans, County of Vaduz, Feud, Grabs, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Reform, Liechtenstein, Linzgau, Lordship of Schellenberg, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Old Swiss Confederacy, Rhine, Swabian League, Switzerland, Tübingen, Vaduz, Von Zimmern, Vorarlberg, Werdenberg Castle.

Alpine Rhine

The Alpine Rhine Valley (Alpenrheintal) is a glacial alpine valley, formed by the part of the Alpine Rhine (German) between the confluence of the Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine at Reichenau and the Alpine Rhine's mouth at Lake Constance.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Brandis, Germany

Brandis is a town in the Leipzig district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

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Bregenz

Bregenz is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost federal state of Austria.

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Canton of St. Gallen

The canton of St.

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Counts of Montfort

The Counts of Montfort were a German noble dynasty from Swabia.

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County of Sargans

The County of Sargans was a state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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County of Vaduz

The County of Vaduz (Grafschaft Vaduz) was a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, now located in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

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Feud

A feud, referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, beef, clan war, gang war, or private war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans.

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Grabs

Grabs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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Imperial Reform

Imperial Reform (Reformatio imperii, Reichsreform) is the name given to repeated attempts in the 15th and 16th centuries to adapt the structure and the constitutional order (Verfassungsordnung) of the Holy Roman Empire to the requirements of the early modern state and to give it a unified government under either the Imperial Estates or the emperor's supremacy.

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in Central Europe.

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Linzgau

Linzgau is a historic region in Southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Lordship of Schellenberg

The Lordship of Schellenberg (Herrschaft Schellenberg) was a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, now located in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, though he was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was always too risky.

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Old Swiss Confederacy

The Old Swiss Confederacy (Modern German: Alte Eidgenossenschaft; historically Eidgenossenschaft, after the Reformation also République des Suisses, Res publica Helvetiorum "Republic of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (cantons, German or) within the Holy Roman Empire.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Swabian League

The Swabian League (Schwäbischer Bund) was a mutual defence and peace keeping association of Imperial Estates – free Imperial cities, prelates, principalities and knights – principally in the territory of the early medieval stem duchy of Swabia, established in 1488 at the behest of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg and supported as well by Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, archbishop of Mainz, whose conciliar rather than monarchic view of the Reich often put him at odds with Frederick's successor Maximilian.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Vaduz

Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein and also the seat of the national parliament.

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Von Zimmern

The von Zimmern family (Herren von Zimmern), after 1538 counts (Grafen) of Zimmern, was a Swabian noble family.

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Vorarlberg

Vorarlberg is the westernmost federal state (Bundesland) of Austria.

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Werdenberg Castle

Werdenberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Grabs of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Redirects here:

Counts of Werdenberg, County of Werdenberg, County of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg, House of Werdenberg, Werdenberg-Heiligenberg, Werdenberg-Montfort.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werdenberg_(Holy_Roman_Empire)

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