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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOWENSTEIN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, See also:capital of the mediatized See also:county of that name, situated under the See also:north slope of the Lowenstein range, 6 m. from See also:Heilbronn. Pop. 1527. It is dominated by the ruined See also:castle of the See also:counts of Lowenstein, and enclosed by See also:medieval walls. The town contains many picturesque old houses. There is also a See also:modern See also:palace. The cultivation of vines is the See also:chief See also:industry, and there is a brine See also:spring (Theusserbad). Lowenstein was founded in 1123 by the counts of See also:Calw, and belonged to the Habsburgs from 1281 to 1441. In 1634 the castle was destroyed by the imperialists. The county of Lowenstein belonged to a See also:branch of the See also:family of the counts of Calw before 1281, when it was See also:purchased by the See also:German See also:king See also:Rudolph I., who presented it to his natural son See also:Albert. In 1441 See also:Henry, one of Albert's descendants, sold it to the elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, See also:Frederick I., and later it served as a portion for See also:Louis (d. 1524), a son of the elector by a morganatic See also:marriage, who became a See also:count of the See also:Empire in 1494.

Louis's See also:

grandson Louis II. (d. 1611) inherited the county of Wertheim and other lands by marriage and called himself count of Lowenstein-Wertheim; his two sons divided the family into two branches. The heads of the two branches, into which the older and See also:Protestant See also:line was afterwards divided, were made princes by the king of See also:Bavaria in 1812 and by the king of Wurttemberg in 1813; the See also:head of the younger, or See also:Roman See also:Catholic line, was made a See also:prince of the Empire in 1711. Both lines are flourishing, their See also:present representatives being See also:Ernst (b. 1854) prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, and Aloyse (b. 1871) prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. The lands of the family were mediatized after the See also:dissolution of the Empire in 18o6. The See also:area of the county of Lowenstein was about 53 sq. m. See C. Rommel, Grundzuge einer Chronik der Stadt Lowenstein (Lowenstein, 1893).

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