Dudenroth

Braunshorn
Coat of arms
Braunshorn
Location of Braunshorn within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°5′32″N 7°31′07″E / 50.09222°N 7.51861°E / 50.09222; 7.51861Coordinates: 50°5′32″N 7°31′07″E / 50.09222°N 7.51861°E / 50.09222; 7.51861
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.	Kastellaun
Government
• Mayor	Heribert Glockner
Area
• Total	6.98 km2 (2.69 sq mi)
Elevation	475 m (1,558 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	604
• Density	87/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56288
Dialling codes	06746
Vehicle registration	SIM
Website	www.braunshorn.de

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.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück some 18 km west of Oberwesel and one kilometre east of Gödenroth.

The municipality’s namesake is the village of Braunshorn, one of three Ortsteile in the municipality. The two others are Dudenroth and Ebschied.

Braunshorn’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.

Ebschied’s beginnings, however, were somewhat different. It originally belonged to the Counts of Kessel on the Meuse. In 1295, it had its first documentary mention when the County’s heirs found themselves at odds with each other. In this same year, Walram, the Provost at Münster, sold his village, Ebschied, to the Counts Palatine.