Located immediately to the north of the Swabian Jura and south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck, Burg Teck takes its name from the ridge, the Teckberg (776m), which it crowned. The duchy of Teck was acquired early in the 11th century by Berthold, count of Zähringen, whose great-grandson Adalbert, styled himself Duke of Teck. In 1381 it passed to Württemberg. The title, which had lapsed with the extinction of the Zähringen line in 1439, was revived in 1495 by the King Maximilian I, who bestowed it upon the dukes of Württemberg.
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