 In retaliation, and due to further differences, Count Eberhard II occupied the fortress Straubenhardt sometime between 1374 and 1381 and had it destroyed".After the destruction of their fortress the nobles of Straubenhardt moved their residence to Schwann and built a castle there.Schwann was the center of an administrative district and jurisdiction of the nobles of Straubenhardt and the family of Schmalenstein.