Korweiler

According to the document, Sibodo von Schmidtberg donated his holdings in Corwilre to the Kumbd Convent, to which an estate, serfs and income in the village belonged in the centuries that followed and on into early modern times.

While Korweiler might have belonged beginning in the Late Middle Ages or early modern times to the Lordship of Waldeck and Waldeck Castle, the village held a special place within the Lordship owing to the Kumbd properties and rights.

Nevertheless, the family Boos zu Waldeck long held “patronage money” (German: Schirmgeld), that is to say, the Kumbd Convent’s rights and income.

Given this tangle of allegiances and ownership rights, there were time and again disagreements with the Knights of Waldeck, leading to conflicts and compromises all the way to the Reichskammergericht.

The Congress rearranged Europe’s post-Napoleonic political map, putting Korweiler in the Kingdom of Prussia, and locally in the Rhine Province.

Saint Bartholomew’s Chapel