sentences:  In 1575 the Lords of Sickingen managed to buy out the Schmidtburgs’ half of the village.After Prince Dominik of Salm-Kyrburg bought up the former Lordship of Sien in 1746, Hoppstädten passed into ownership of the Rhinegraves of Grumbach.Thereafter, the lordly structures remained unchanged until feudalism itself was swept away during the French Revolution.