History
Until the foundation of the community
Schönthal belonged to the Schönthal Monastery, founded before the year 1263. In 1433, the Battle of Hiltersried took place near Schönthal, in which John of Palatinate-Neumarkt drove the Hussites out of the Upper Palatinate. Monasteries, offices and the population often waged legal wars against each other. The nursing office Rötz v. Schönthal Monastery: April 10, 1794, September 11, 1794, January 1, 1795, January 22, 1795, July 22, 1798 (der Schmid v. the monastery), September 17, 1798 (community v. the monastery., When the Upper Palatinate regional courts were filled with former monastic judges in 1803, the monastic judge Merz von Schönthal, among others, could not be taken over. Reason: "inept subjects".Die Protokolle des Bayerischen Staatsrats 1799 bis 1817 Herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften durch Eberhard Weis und von der Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns durch Hermann Rumschöttel, Band 2, 1802 bis 1807 Bearbeitet von Esteban Mauerer, München 2008, S. 595f The place was later part of the Electorate of Bavaria and formed a closed Hofmark of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization.References
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