He received a portion of the land in 1595 following the partitioning of estates and changes in holdings, and then moved his residence from Langenburg to Weikersheim. The existing water palace no longer met the requirements of the renaissance prince. He demanded a representative residence and commissioned the Dutch architect Georg Robin with the planning of the new palace building and also had the garden complex laid out on the southern side of the palace. With Wolfgang II the heyday of Weikersheim palace began, however the original palace draft remained a torso and the Count continued to live in rooms in the old castle.
She was a sister of Wilhelm of Nassau-Oranien, the leader of the Dutch fight for independence. The preference of Wolfgang II for the Dutchman Robin may lie in the fact that his wife originally came from the Netherlands. Magdalena, an educated woman, was happily married to Wolfgang II and gave birth to six sons and eight daughters. She assumed administrative duties at the court, saw to the palace pharmacy and authored medical prescriptions. Her mother-in-law had already begun a collection of these. Magdalena was generous in donating money, food, clothing and medication for the poor and needy.
He only half-heartedly continued the work begun on the palace by his father Wolfgang II. He mainly saw to the expansion and reappointment of the "Stadtkirche" (main church) St. George.
His involvement in the Thirty Years' War on the Bohemian Protestant side interrupted the building work and lead to the palace and the town being plundered following the battle near Nördlingen.
In 1634 Georg Friedrich was forced to surrender his territory to the Teutonic Order.
Weikersheim was returned to the nephew of Georg Friedrich in the Peace of Westphalia, and he then continued building work on the palace. Under his regency the palace wing on the town side was enlarged and the royal stables were erected, resulting in the successful urban connection of the palace and the town of Weikersheim.
His full title was Count of Hohenlohe and Gleichen, Lord of Langenburg and Cranichfeld. Following his education, Carl Ludwig became a commissioned officer. In 1702 he took part in the War of Spanish Succession as a young officer. His older brother, Johann Ernst, and his father died in the same year. Carl Ludwig gave up his military career and took over the government. After moving to Weikersheim in 1709, Carl Ludwig began to expand and furnish the palace as his residence. The Baroque sovereign saw to the creation of the axial connection of the palace to the town and had the arcade buildings built up to the market square. His work also included the today virtually unchanged palace gardens with the Orangery.
Of him it was said, "Count Carl Ludwig loved building very much, and was exceptionally highly skilled at this art." In 1752 he celebrated his 50th year of rule.
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Oettingen-Oettingen was of sovereign blood and received a thorough education until the age of 21. Representative ideas for the design of the palace and garden may very well have come from her and her connections to Weikersheim. The daughter of Albrecht II von Oettingen, the builder of Schrattenhofen Palace, suggested that the Orangery be built in Weikersheim. With her dowry, Elisabeth Friederike Sophie brought along valuable books and precious art objects.
Albrecht Ludwig Friedrich died in a fatal accident on the night of 1 July 1744 on the way to the Carlsberg. The terrible fall from his horse had far-reaching consequences. The young count was the last heir to the Weikersheim line, for no children had been born from his marriage to Christiane Louise. As a result, the rule of Weikersheim went to the Öhringen line following Carl Ludwig's death in 1756, and Weikersheim Palace lost its importance as a residence.
Ludwig Friedrich Karl was the son of Carl Ludwig's younger brother Johann Friedrich, who reigned in Öhringen and was raised to the rank of prince in 1764. As Count Carl Ludwig died without an heir, the line of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim ended on this death. The palace went to the nephew in 1756. Weikersheim was occasionally used by the sovereign family as a summer palace. The rooms were therefore preserved with only minor changes. Ludwig Friedrich Karl only had one apartment on the third floor of the Langenburger Bau (Langenburg Building) redecorated with red fabric wall coverings, stucco ceilings and furniture in the Rococo style in 1767.