the Comburg monastery, but Hohlach was an imperial fiefdom that granted its owners the status of imperial knight. Hohlach Castle secured the Rothenburg−Ochsenfurt...

Willeborg von Wertheim and hailed from the rich Hohenlohe family of Burg Hohlach, near Uffenheim. He was also a relative of a previous grand master, Heinrich...

of Weikersheim in 1153. The family soon built further castles nearby, Hohlach (to become Hohenlohe) and Brauneck. In 1586, three brothers divided the...