Bei den Mikrogemeinden in Rheinland-Pfalz kommt es ja gelegentlich vor, dass der #Gemeinderat mehr Sitze hat als die Gemeinde Einwohner, aber der krasseste Fall war wohl #Schaumburg. Die Gemeinde war ungefähr mit dem #Schloss identisch, und nachdem das verkauft worden ist, waren es am Ende bloß noch 2 Einwohner, die Mitte 1991 in die direkt benachbarte feindliche #Trutzburg #Balduinstein eingemeindet worden sind, wo auch noch ein paar Häuser dazugehören. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Schaumburg #WahlThread [1/3]

View across the Lahn river to the village of Balduinstein (district of Diez/ Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate) and Schaumburg Castle on the mountain in the background.
(May 2009)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Gewässer, #Flüsse, rivers, #Lahn, #Balduinstein, #Diez, #Burgen, #Schlösser, #castles, #Schloß_Schaumburg, #Rheinland_Pfalz

The ruins of Baduinstein castel in Balduinstein at the Lahn river (Rheinland-Pfalz)
(May 2009)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Burgen, #Schlösser, #palaces, #Architektur, #architecture, #Balduinstein, #Diez, #Lahn, #Rheinland_Pfalz

The village of Balduinstein (administered by the nearby town of Diez) at the Lahn river (Rhineland-Palatinate), which had only 591 inhabitants at the end of 2020, was granted city rights in 1321, which included the right to erect city walls. Today only the remains of Balduinstein Castle, built in 1319 by Archbishop Balduin of Trier, remain in the village. The castle of Schaumburg, built above the village, belonged to the feuding lords of Westerburg.
(May 2009)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Burgen, #Schlösser, #palaces, #Architektur, #architecture, #Balduinstein, #Diez, #Lahn, #Rheinland_Pfalz

Schloss Schaumburg above Balduinstein at the Lahn river (Rhineland-Palatinate) was originally a hilltop castle that was only mentioned in 1197, but was probably 200 years older.
Archduke Stephan of Austria owned the castle from 1847 to 1867 and had it rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style.
(May 2009)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Burgen, #Schlösser, #palaces, #Architektur, #architecture, #Balduinstein, #Lahn, #Rheinland_Pfalz