Schmidtburg information

troops in 1688. Schmidtburg castle Schmidtburg castle – view from lower tower Schmidtburg castle – detail of upper tower Schmidtburg castle – view from...

18th century, Schneppenbach was administratively tightly bound with the Schmidtburg (castle), which nowadays stands within the village's municipal limits...

the Schmidtburg and the villages belonging to it. From 1330 to 1794, Bundenbach belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Schmidtburg. The Schmidtburg, which...

Dorothea Braun von Schmidtburg 1677–1691: Carolina von Hagen 1691–1695: Arnolda Elisabeth von Weller 1700: Odilia Braun von Schmidtburg 1708: A. E. von Metzenhausen...

line of the lords of Metternich. From 1753 the Freiherr, Schenk von Schmidtburg, was the owner of the Holsthum estate. The house was given a careful...

before 1400 and houses the graves of the Schenken (roughly “Stewards”) at Schmidtburg, a sideline of that great comital dynasty from the Hahnenbach valley...

Balthasar Seberger, commissioned by Wolf Heinrich Gottfried Braun of Schmidtburg. His father Heinrich Gottfried bought the castle in 1701. It was out...

Henri II d’Orléans, Duke of Longueville, after town commander Braun von Schmidtburg zu Schweich had gone over to them. 27 May 1641 [O.S. 17 May 1641] - Bad...

beginning in the mid 14th century to the lordship of Schmidtburg, which later formed the Amt of Schmidtburg, which itself existed until the late 18th century...

Johannes Bückler moved his "residence" to the semi-ruined castle of Schmidtburg in the Hahnenbach valley and used Schloss Kallenfels above Kirn, as an...

before the French Revolution put an end to their feudal power. Schenk von Schmidtburg, who acquired the castle at the end of the 18th century, undertook some...

also, they were naming themselves after castles: in 1107 the Counts of Schmidtburg, in 1098 the Counts of Flonheim, in 1128 the Counts of Kyrburg and in...

Sulzbach, Weitersbach and Woppenroth. Also under the court's sway was the Schmidtburg. With this Waldgravial castle’s loss to Archbishop Baldwin of Trier in...

of the first proprietors of a castle mentioned in 926, possibly the Schmidtburg. Counts with the name Emich are documented without interval between 960...

shapes) stand for the Ortsteile. The buckle stands for the baronial family Schmidtburg, whose arms bore such a buckle as the main charge. It was to these barons...

fire, thought the extent of damage is unknown. In 1632, the Braun von Schmidtburg family came into possession of both castles via the estate of the Imperial...

court. The buckle stands for yet another knightly family, the Knights of Schmidtburg, who were likewise part-owners of the Kellenbach high court, and who...

of arms with the silver buckle hints at a kinship with the Lords of Schmidtburg. Standing out among the Lords of Heinzenberg was Wilhelm III of Heinzenberg...

(a noble title, historically meaning something akin to “steward”) of Schmidtburg. Beginning in 1794, Brohl lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned...