The community of Pommersfelden is subdivided into four Gemarkungen (traditional rural land units) with a total of ten settled centres, each given here with its own population figure: The Gemarkungen have the same names as 4 of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby, or in Pommersfelden’s case, within it).

After the family had died out in 1710, ownership passed to Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.

In the south of the constituent community of Pommersfelden stands Schloss Weißenstein (palace), built by Lothar Franz von Schönborn between 1711 and 1716, which is nowadays in private family ownership.

The Baroque palace houses an impressive stairway, an indoor grotto and a collection of paintings that is worth seeing.

The painter, restorer and gallery inspector Joseph Dorn was born on 12 August 1759 in Kratz-Sambach, today’s Sambach.