Schönborn is a municipality in the
district of Rhein-Lahn, in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
, in western
Germany
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. It belongs to the
association community of Aar-Einrich.
Schönborn is the origin of the
Counts of Schönborn. Between 1100 and 1479, the lords were vassals of the Counts of
Katzenelnbogen whose castle at Katzenelnbogen was three miles away. Today a little house next to the church is still called ''
Schönborner Hof''.
[http://www.graf-von-katzenelnbogen.de/ The History of the County of Katzenelnbogen and the First Riesling of the World]
Notes and references
Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
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