1839 Count Grimaudet died in his renovated castle and was buried in Wangen cemetery.
1829 The French Count de Grimaudet acquired the estate and had it improved and embellished at great cost. Today’s foundations and external walls date back to this time. Ever since, the building has been known as Marbach Castle.
1598 Baron Kasper of Ulm contrived to repurchase the former property of his family. His son Ludwig, who held an influential position at the imperial court, obtained an imperial order whereby Marbach Castle had to be sold back to his family. After 1461 and 1570, Marbach Castle burnt down for the third time during the Thirty Years’ War. For 300 years, the castle remained in the ownership of countless members of the Ulm family, who either inherited Marbach Castle, sold it to each other or took over its maintenance.
1587 Imperial commissioners had to settle Ulrich Fugger’s debts. Marbach was returned to the Peutingers’ heirs, from whom Count Jakob Fugger, the Dean of Constance Cathedral, repurchased it.
1581 Count Ulrich Fugger, Lord of Kirchberg und Weissenhorn, purchased the Marbach properties from the Peutingers, albeit only on credit as the wealth of this branch of the Fugger family was already badly reduced at that time.
1558 As a consequence of the division of the estate, the properties of the Ulm family were split up. Marbach Castle was sold to the Augsburg patrician family, Peutinger. 1461 Owing to sheer neglect, Marbach Castle burnt down.
1430 In the course of conflicts between the patricians of Constance and the members of the guilds, Jakob II took the patricians’ side and barricaded himself in Marbach Castle. The rebellious burghers of Constance stormed the Castle and laid waste to it.
1409 Nikolaus Sattler sold Marbach Castle to Baron Jakob I of Ulm, who came from a noble Constance family.
1387 One Nikolaus Sattler of Ravensburg purchased Marbach Castle after Mangold of Brandis’ death and acquired the Kehlhof estate a year later. Marbach Castle and Wangen were in one man’s ownership for the first time.
1384 Mangold of Brandis, now Abbot of Reichenau and Bishop of Constance, had Marbach re-erected.
1369 Constance merchants sailed up to the Castle in 18 boats. 400 men stormed the defences and burnt them down. Nine armed men alone defended the Castle successfully for some days, but then surrendered and were beheaded in Constance.
1365 From this strategically well placed position, Berne’s Barons of Brandis conducted raids, particularly on boats on the Rhine, so that this important trade route from and to Constance collapsed. Marbach Castle was an iniquitous den of robber barons, in which the burgomaster of Constance was kept prisoner for a long time.
1291 The Castle, which is more likely to have been a fortress at the time, was first mentioned in 1291, in the Chronicle of Reichenau Monastery. Abbot Albrecht of Ramstein witnessed: in castro nostro quod Marbach dicitur – in our castle, which is called Marbach.
