Burg Teck

This article is about the ducal castle in Germany. For the Canadian mining company, see Teck Cominco.

For the chemokine called TECK see CCL25.

Teck was a ducal castle in the kingdom of Württemberg, immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck (now in the district of Esslingen), taking its name from the ridge, 2544 feet high, which it crowned. It was destroyed in the Peasants' War (1525). The castle was reconstructed during the 19th and 20th century.

In 1863 the title "Prince of Teck" was conferred by King William I of Württemberg upon the children of his cousin Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804-1885) by his morganatic marriage with Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812-1841), ennobled as countess of Hohenstein. In 1871 Prince Francis , the eldest son of Duke Alexander, was created duke of Teck. His eldest son Adolphus (b. 1868) was in 1910 the holder of the title.

The most famous of the Teck family is considered to be Mary of Teck, who married George V of the United Kingdom.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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