the mother of the last member of the Hohenfels family, the castle passed after her death in 1608 to her two brothers Emich and Sebastian, counts of Daun-Falkenstein. However, these two passed away without any descendants entitled to inherit (living heirs), so the castle and the estate of Countess Amalia went to her two nephews, sons of her sister, Sidonia, the Swedish counts John-Casimir and Sten (Steino) of Löwenhaupt-Rasburg, cousins (great cousins) of the Swedish king, Gustavus II Adolphus of the House of Wasa. Stens's half of the castle and estate went to the counts of Manderscheid-Kail by marriage and inheritance. In 1730, Count Francis William Caspar was able to acquire this half share from Hillesheim. The other half of the estate of John-Casimir remained in the possession of the counts of Löwenhaupt-Rasburg until 1763 and was subsequently sold to Count Philip Andrew of Ellrodt. In 1770/1773, an attempt was made to sell Ellrodt's share of the estate to Palatinate-Zweibrücken, which failed, however, because of unnoted pre-emptive rights. In 1777/1778 the estate was managed by Count William Ernest Godfrey of Hillesheim and Princess Caroline of Isenburg, daughter of Palatine Elector, Charles Theodore in condominium. In 1797 the property was expropriated as part of the French occupation. On 30 November 1808, the castle grounds and its buildings were auctioned off to Karl Baumann, the Maire of Lauterecken, merchant Heinrich Puricelli and farmer Johann Bacher. A short time later, in 1836, the buildings were described as ruinous because they were partly used as quarries. Around 1830, the Speyer district archivist, Peter Gayer (1793-1836), captured the state of the castle in a sepia drawing, the second oldest known painting of the castle. The oldest depiction of the castle is by Freiherr Stephan von Stengel. It is an etching which he titled with "à ReipoldsKirchen" and signed with a French name "p. Et. de Stengel 1772 ". The castle is, depicted in a ruinous state, was probably drawn from the north. Stengel's etching could also combine views from different angles. Most of the heart of castle site was acquired in 1988 by the county of Kusel. The castle underwent extensive renovation in 2005. Today it houses a restaurant, a registry office and an art school. The bergfried is freely accessible and has been turned into a viewing tower. Baronetcy of Reipoltskirchen Reipoltskirchen Castle was the seat of the eponymous imperially immediate Herrschaft or baronetcy.