Hohentwiel Fortress
The fortress resisted five Imperial sieges in the Thirty Years’ War, under the command of Konrad Widerholt between 1634 and 1648. The effect was that Württemberg remained Protestant, while most of the surrounding areas returned to catholicism in the Counterreformation. The mountaintop fortress of Hohentweil under attack in October 1641. 1643 illustration of Festung Hohentwiel […]
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