Braunshorn

Braunshorn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Hunsrück some 18 km west of Oberwesel and one kilometre east of Gödenroth.Constituent communitiesThe municipality’s namesake is the village of Braunshorn, one of three Ortsteile in the municipality. The two others are Dudenroth and Ebschied.HistoryBraunshorn’s and Dudenroth’s founders were the Lords of Braunshorn, about 1090, one of whose lordly seats was the motte-and-bailey Castle Dudenroth, which can be regarded as the Hunsrück’s oldest defensive complex. Indeed, in both places, remnants of such mediaeval castles can be found. In 1098 came Castle Dudenroth’s first documentary mention; at this time it belonged to Gandolf von Braunshorn. The first church was mentioned in Heinrich von Braunshorn’s time, in 1175. In 1268, the lordly family moved its seat to Beilstein.