Schönthal is a municipality in the district of Cham in Bavaria in Germany.

In 1433, the Battle of Hiltersried took place near Schönthal, in which John of Palatinate-Neumarkt drove the Hussites out of the Upper Palatinate.

Monasteries, offices and the population often waged legal wars against each other.

The nursing office Rötz v. Schönthal Monastery: April 10, 1794, September 11, 1794, January 1, 1795, January 22, 1795, July 22, 1798 (der Schmid v. the monastery), September 17, 1798 (community v. the monastery.,[3] When the Upper Palatinate regional courts were filled with former monastic judges in 1803, the monastic judge Merz von Schönthal, among others, could not be taken over.

[4] The place was later part of the Electorate of Bavaria and formed a closed Hofmark of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization.