Editing Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (section)

====Jurisdiction====
The head of the Swabian branch of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ruled over the following territories:
* [[House of Hohenzollern#County of Zollern|County of Hohenzollern]] (1061)
* [[Burgraviate of Nuremberg]] (1192)
* County of [[Veringenstadt|Veringen]] (1535)
* Lordship of [[Haigerloch]] (1634)
* Lordship of Wehrstein (1634)
* [[Land van den Bergh|County of Bergh]] (1781)

From 1061 until 1806 five of these fiefs (not including Nuremberg) constituted an [[Imperial immediacy|immediate]] territory of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] under the counts of Zollern, [[vassal]]s of the [[Holy Roman Emperor]].

From 1806 until 1813 the Hohenzollern lands were a [[realm]] of the [[Confederation of the Rhine]], a short-lived state set up by [[Napoleon I Bonaparte]]. From 1815 until 1849 the principality was a [[sovereign country]] and a member of the [[German Confederation]]. In 1849 it lost its independence, and was incorporated into the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] as the [[Province of Hohenzollern]].

[[File:Graf von dem Bergh, Fotografie Fürst Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern.jpg|thumb|[[Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern]], head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern]]
The German Confederation was succeeded in 1866 by the [[North German Confederation]], which itself was succeeded by the [[German Empire]] in 1871. In 1918, the Kingdom of Prussia became the [[Free State of Prussia]], and the German Empire was replaced by the [[Weimar Republic]]. In 1933 the republic was replaced by the [[Nazi Germany|Third Reich]]. After the defeat of the Nazis the province of Hohenzollern was merged with other territories into the state of [[Württemberg-Hohenzollern]]. This state was part of the [[Allied-occupied Germany|Allied Occupation Zones in Germany]] until 1952. In that year, the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern was merged into [[Baden-Württemberg]], a state of the [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]].

[[Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern]], is the head of the princely Swabian line.