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[[File:Adel im Wandel365.jpg|thumb|Joseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg in 1772]]
'''Joseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen''' (21 March 1728 - 2 June 1783) was a German nobleman and from 1762 to 1783 the sixth ruling Prince of [[Principality of Fürstenberg|Fürstenberg]].
== Life ==
Joseph Wenzel was the eldest son of prince [[Joseph (Fürstenberg-Stühlingen)|Joseph zu Fürstenberg]] and Maria Anna von Waldstein. He studied in [[Straßburg]] and [[Leipzig]]. He tried to develop the principality's education and introduced a chancery for it. Teaching was based on the Austrian system and a Jesuit was made head of the Donaueschingen Gymnasium and later the Benedictine Franz Uebelacker was put in charge of the whole school system. He also had a history of the House of the Fürstenberg written from the principality's archives.
He set up a zuchthaus in [[Hüfingen]] and stopped his father's industrialisation policy and made resettlement difficult, since he saw industry as immoral - he preferred home handiwork such as watchmaking. In 1777 he set up a fire brigade. He was made director of the Swabian College of Reichsgrafen and in 1775 the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] appointed him a major general (with his rank effective from 1765).
He was also a music lover and was said to have been an excellent cellist. In 1762 he began building a private chapel at his court at [[Donaueschingen]], and bringing a number of foreign musicians to man it. In 1783 he appointed [[Franz Christoph Neubauer]] as his musical director.<ref>Seifriz S. 364</ref> He employed [[Ernst Christoph Dressler]] as [[Kapellmeister]] at [[Wetzlar]] between 1767 and 1771.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lorenz |first1=Franz |title=Georg Anton Benda |date=2014 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3110841985 |page=65 |language=German |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UpbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref> In 1766 [[Leopold Mozart]] and his son [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Amadeus]] spent around two weeks at the [[Donaueschingen Palace]] as Joseph Wenzel's guest.
== Marriage and succession ==
On 9 June 1748 Joseph Wenzel married Maria Josepha, countess of Waldburg-Scheer-Trauchburg, daughter of count Hans Ernst von [[Waldburg-Scheer]][[Waldburg-Trauchburg|-Trauchburg]]. They had seven children:
* Johann Nepomuk Joseph (25 July 1755 - 6 October 1755)
* Josepha Maria Johanna (14 November 1756 - 2 October 1809) ∞ Phillip Maria von Fürstenberg-Pürglitz
* [[Joseph Maria, Prince of Fürstenberg|Joseph Maria]] (9 January 1758 – 24 June 1796)
* Maria Anna Josepha (4 April 1759 - 26 June 1759)
* Karl Alexander (11 September 1760 - 19 February 1761)
* Karl Egon (5 June 1762 - 20 February 1771)
* [[Karl Joachim, Prince of Fürstenberg|Karl Joachim]] (31 March 1771 – 17 May 1804)
== Bibliography ==
* {{in lang|de}} {{Google books|_h07AAAAYAAJ|Carl Borromäus Alois Fickler: ''Geschichte des Hauses und Landes Fürstenberg'', Aachen und Leipzig 1832; Band 4, S. 267–280}}
* {{in lang|de}} Erno Seifriz: ''„Des Jubels klare Welle in der Stadt der Donauquelle“. Musik am Hofe der Fürsten von Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert'' In: Mark Hengerer und [[Elmar L. Kuhn]] (ed.): ''Adel im Wandel. Oberschwaben von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart''. Verlag Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, {{ISBN|978-3-7995-0216-0}}, Band 1, S.&nbsp;363–376.
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