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Between 1634 and 1635, during the Thirty Years War, the Castle was defended against imperial troops by a garrison of Protestants from Württemberg, strengthened by Swedish forces. The siege ended finally with the surrender to the imperial troops, who occupied the fortress until 1649.

After the Thirty Years War, the fortress was returned to the rule of Württemberg. In 1688 and 1693, the fortress was occupied by French troops, afterwords it lost its importance as a defensive fortress and became a garrison and a state prison. in 1718 Asperg was integrated into the district Ludwigsburg, but 17 years later became its own district. In 1781, Asperg was permanently incorporated into the district of Ludwigsburg.

[edit] Prisoners

The use of the fortress as a prison is responsible for the fact that Hohenasperg is jokingly called "Württemberg's highest mountain" as they say "it takes only five minutes to come to the top, but years to come back down again."

[edit] During the Old Empire

In 1737, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, a Jew and the financial adviser to the Duke of Württemberg, was arrested and, in a dubious political trial, was sentenced to death. The poet C. F. D. Schubart was held prisoner there between 1777 and 1787. Schubart's fate became the subject of Friedrich Schiller's Drama "The Robber." Schiller himself had escaped the confinement of the Hohenasperg by fleeing to Mannheim in the neighboring Electoral Palatinate.

[edit] In the 19th Century

During the rule of King Frederick of Württemberg, deserters, military prisoners, and separatists from the Radical Pietist group from Rottenacker were kept in Fort Hohenasperg. When his son, king Wilhelm I became ruler in 1817, Corporal Punishment, such as running the gauntlet, was abolished.

Further inmates in Fort Hohenasperg included the writer Berthold Auerbach, who was kept here between 1837 and 1838, Friedrich Kammerer (1833), the Doctor and Poet Theobald Kerner (1850-1851), the theologian Karl Hase, the Satirist Johannes Nefflen, the Poet Leo von Seckendorff, the Writer Theodor Griesinger and many more, most political dissidents, who, in general were held prisoner because of their anti monarchistic views.

In 1887 and 1888 a water tower [1] , [2], was constructed, which also holds police radio antennas.

Since 1894, a prison for the civil penal system has been located on Mount Hohenasperg. In the meantime the central hospital for the Baden-Württemberg penal system was placed on the Hohenasperg.

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