The Waldgraves and Rhinegraves later tried to take back at least the court jurisdiction over the village, but their attempt in 1500 led the Lords of Wartenstein to appeal to the “old” Trier Lehnsferse, a body constituted for this purpose among others.

There was another claim to both low and high jurisdiction over Herborn in 1586 by Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Otto, and he tried again in 1603, taking advantage of a situation whereby the von Warsbergs had pledged the village to the Amt of Wildenburg.

Even as late as 1685, the Metz Chambre des Réunions was describing the question of high jurisdiction over Herborn as being disputed among the Electorate of Trier, the feudal lords of Warsberg and the Rhinegraves.

They had been revoked by the Electorate of Trier, and the Rhinegraves’ lordship extended to one subject, a man who had to bring his grain to the Fockenhauser mill to be ground.

[4] Herborn’s mayor is Peter Remuta, and his deputies are Gerhard Dunkel and Susanne Lang.