part of the current municipal area lay within the archbishopric of mainz and in 1803, it was secularized. the rest lay within krombach over which the counts of schönborn held sway and passed with mediatization in 1806 to the principality of aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 to the kingdom of bavaria. in the course of administrative reform in bavaria, the current community came into being with the "gemeindeedikt" (“municipal edict”) of 1818.