Rechberg

Rechberg

For the mountain, see Rechberg .Rechberg was the name of a noble comital family in Swabia during the Holy Roman Empire period.*Ulrich I von Rechberg, ca. 1140-1206, auf Hohenrechberg, Swabian Marescalc, married Edilhardis von Ramis and Berchterad von Biberbach*Hildebrand von Rechberg, fl...

 and Rothenlöwen was a country in the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...

. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a renaming of Osterberg

Osterberg

Osterberg is a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria in Germany....

, and it inherited Osterberg in 1767. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was mediatised

German Mediatisation

The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany between 1795 and 1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era....

 to Württemberg

Württemberg

Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....

 in 1806. The family of the Grafen von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen would be an important one in the 19th century. Aloys was a prominent Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

n statesman, while his son Johann Bernhard

Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen

Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen was an Austrian statesman.Born at Regensburg the second son of the Bavarian statesman Count Aloys von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen , Johann Bernhard was destined for the Bavarian public service, his elder brother being a hereditary member of the...

, would enter the Austrian

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire...

 diplomatic service and rise eventually to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.