by Pauline Lauterbach | Aug 13, 2025 | Baroque Era, Middle Ages
Rotenkirchner Gate Rothenkirchen Monastery The Rothenkirchen Monastery, founded by Werner II von Bolanden (1118 – approx. 1190) and his wife Guda (HANC DOMVM FECERVNT WERNER ET GVDA) around 1160, is located an hour (3 km) north of the “Rothenkircher Gate”....
by Pauline Lauterbach | Aug 13, 2025 | Middle Ages
Noble Estates 38.1 the Fausts of Stromberg The Fausts of Stromberg were ministeriales of the Counts of Sponheim in the 14th century. Like their ‘lords,’ they originated from the Hunsrück. In Kirchheimbolanden, no less than four members of this family...
by Pauline Lauterbach | Aug 13, 2025 | Middle Ages
by Pauline Lauterbach | Aug 12, 2025 | Middle Ages
The White Horse The Noble Geispitzheim Family The Geispitzheim lineage existed from the High Middle Ages until the 18th century. As early as 1083, a document from St. Alban’s Monastery in Mainz mentions “Appo von Geisbodenheim”. A century later,...
