 In 1372, Hohenstaufen Castle finally was in the hands of the Württemberg rulers.After the expulsion of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg by the members of the Swabian League in 1519, one Georg Staufer of Bloßenstaufen successfully claimed the castle, as a descendant of the old Hohenstaufen dynasty.Therefore, only a small force defended the castle in 1525, when it was taken and destroyed by the peasants during the German Peasants' War.