Albert von Hügel

Born as a member of the noble Hügel family, Albert was the eldest child of the Württemberg General and Minister of War Baron Ernst von Hügel (1774–1849),[1] and the former Baroness Charlotte Wilhelmine Schott von Schottenstein.

[2] From his parents' marriage, his younger brother was Karl Eugen von Hügel, the Foreign Minister of Württemberg from 1855 to 1864.

[6] In 1851 Hügel built the manor of Waldhof in a secluded forest south east of Eschenau on the district border with Bretzfeld.

In the run-up to the construction of the Kocherbahn, the railway line from Heilbronn to Hall, he is said to have exerted significant influence with his connections in Stuttgart so that the railway line ran through Eschenau, and thus the Weinsberg valley, instead of Neckarsulm and the northern Kocher valley.

[9] In 1831 Hügel was married to Marie Louise Elisabethe Freiin von Uexküll-Gyllenband (1811–1862), owner of the manor of Eschenau.