Finally, Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden and his brother bequeathed the property to the Cologne archbishopric.
The heiress of Hochstaden and Wickrath Adelheid married Otto von Are in about 1167.
After the death of the father of Otto Dietrich I von Are the inheritance was divided.
[3] About the throne of the Holy Roman Empire, the counts of Hochstaden supported the Guelph side against Frederick II.
After her nephew Theodoric and Gerhard had died childless, his brothers, from the archbishopric of Cologne, including Neuenahr, Altenahr, Heimbach, Hardthöhe and Nürburg took over the possession.