During the twentieth century, the town was enlarged in its north by the villages of the former Herrlichkeit Lembeck.
Low justice was, starting in 1306, in the possession of the Herrschaft of Rued, but was sold in 1517 to Bern.
Together with his brothers Otto and Friedrich I Ulrich II bought in 1328 Herrschaft and Schloss Kornberg.
The Knight Templar Aschwin von Wallmoden is mentioned in 1307, on the dissolution of the Templars by Pope Clement V, at which time the Heinde herrschaft was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Hildesheim.
Unter Georg von Carlowitz (1544 - 1550) erreichte die Herrschaft Kriebstein mit Dörfern und den beiden Städten Waldheim und Hartha ihre größte territoriale Ausdehnung.
In 1667 the Herrschaft was acquired by Wolf Rudolf Reding, who sold it in 1687 to Rheinau.
After some time, the family was able to arrange the purchase of the minuscule Herrschaft ("Lordship") of Schellenberg and countship of Vaduz (in 1699 and 1712 respectively) from the Hohenems.