 In 1942, the Schloss was bombed and reduced to a shell by the air raids on Mainz in 1942.By the mid-1960s it had been largely rebuilt by Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg and his wife Princess Tatiana, who had fled there on a farm cart in 1945 after the Russians had advanced on their other estates.Prince Paul died in 1992, leaving no heir, but a significant portion of his fortune to his mistress.