page_title: House of Metternich
section_title: Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein
hierarchical_section_title: House of Metternich / Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein
caption_attribution_description: English: Portion of a late 18th century map showing the herrschaft (lordship) and town of Beilstein along the Moselle River. Also part of Beilstein is the non-contiguous area to the southeast inscribed "Herrsch." Along with the castle of Winneburg ("Winnenburg") located immediately above Cocheim ("Kocheim") in the top-left corner of the map, Beilstein formed the twin herrschaft of Winneburg and Beilstein, which had belonged to the Metternich family for generations until it was dissolved in the early 19th century. The areas in pink and blue are parts of the Electorate of Trier (Upper Trier in pink and Lower Trier in blue) while the several areas in green are territories belonging to the County of Sponheim. Cropped from a map of the Electorate of Trier by Homann Heirs published in 1789 ("Charte das Erzstift u. Churfürstenthum Trier". Nürnberg, Homann Erben, 1789).
context_page_description: Metternich is a German noble family originating in the Rhineland. The most prominent member was Prince Klemens von Metternich, who was the dominant figure at the Congress of Vienna. As a former reigning house, Metternich family belonged to the small circle of high nobility.
context_section_description: In 1635, the family of the Elector of Trier, Lothar Johann Reinhard von Metternich (1515–1623), acquired the immediate Lordship of Beilstein, which made them free from any other overlord than the emperor, and began styling themselves as Freiherren von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein. Their title was upgraded to Graf in 1679. Lothar Johann Reinhard von Metternich's nephews, Karl von Metternich and Emmerich von Metternich, were opposed to the policies of the Elector of Trier Philipp Christoph von Sötern.
  In 1623–30, the Imperial Quartermaster General, Lothar von Metternich, and his brother Wilhelm purchased the lordships of Lázně Kynžvart and the village of Metternich near Koblenz. Wilhelm's eldest son, Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg, was Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms in 1679. The younger son, Philip Emmerich von Metternich (d. 1698), was raised to the rank of Graf.
  The last Count of Metternich-Winneburg was Franz Georg Karl von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein, who lost the ancestral lordship to France by the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville. In compensation, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, gave him the secularized Ochsenhausen Abbey and raised him to the rank of Fürst in 1803. Their immediate territories were mediatized by Württemberg in 1806.
  His son, Klemens von Metternich, worked in the service of the Austrian Empire; he was a major diplomat at the Congress of Vienna and was Minister-President of Austria from 1821 to 1848. He acquired Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau. Klemens' eldest surviving son, Richard von Metternich, was a diplomat and married his half-niece, Pauline Sándor de Szlavnicza (she was the daughter of Richard's half-sister, Leonore).
  Richard and Pauline von Metternich had three daughters, but no sons, so upon the death of Richard, the title of Fürst passed to Richard's half-brother, Paul von Metternich (1834–1906). The title then passed to his son, Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1869–1930). His son, Paul Alfons von Metternich-Winneburg (1917–1992), was the president of ADAC. He was the last male Metternich, and the title of Fürst became extinct with his death. The situation had forced him to sell his family estate Schloss Johannisberg, with its famous winery, to the Oetker family in 1974.
  The family name however passed to Franz Albrecht Metternich-Sándor (1920–2009), whose mother was a descendant of Klemens von Metternich and who had been adopted by his aunt, Clementine von Metternich-Sándor (1870–1963). Franz Albrecht Metternich-Sándor, the son of Victor III, Duke of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey (a branch of the princely house of Hohenlohe) inherited his father's titles. Franz Albrecht's eldest son is Viktor Metternich-Sándor (born 1964), who has headed the ducal House of Ratibor and Corvey since his father's death.
caption: The Lordship of Winneburg–Beilstein in the Moselle Valley
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