the hegemony of the counts of schönborn was mediatized in 1806 at the behest of the principality of aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the grand duchy of frankfurt) to bavaria. in the course of administrative reform in bavaria, the current community came into being with the "gemeindeedikt" (“municipal edict”) of 1818. the hereditary court at krombach was abolished in 1849.