After the Thirty Years' War, Saint George's Chapel was held by Imperial Baron Philipp Erwein von Schönborn (d. 1668), who moved his family's landholdings from the Taunus to the Middle Rhine and the Main. He acquired it because of the Altmünster Convent's fourth of the tithes that were tied to it, of which sometime earlier – the exact circumstances are still unclear – Heidesheim's parish priest had been stripped by the Convent, which was furthermore towards the end of, or just after, the Thirty Years' War – as almost always – in need of money. The priest's livelihood was later disputed by the Convent, making his financial position anything but better.