 It is in the 'music corner', a region so-called because of its history of production of musical instruments.The districts of Schöneck are Arnoldsgrün, Eschenbach, Gunzen, Korna, Kottenheide, Schilbach and Zwotental.Schöneck became a town in 1370, but was first mentioned a century before this, when the castle "castrum Schoennecke" was mentioned as a mediaeval manor.