The church honours St. Castor, who is said to have worked as a missionary on the Moselle in the 4th century and to have founded a religious community in Karden.
It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Treis-Karden, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
In 1654, Karl Kaspar arranged for Damian Hartard to be made Archdeacon of Karden and provost of the Stift St. Kastor in Karden.
Daniel Hünten (1? September 1760 in Treis-Karden — 1 April 1823 in Koblenz) was a German organist, guitarist and composer.
In 1654 he made his younger brother Damian Hartard von der Leyen the Archbishop of Mainz and Provost and Archdeacon of Karden, titles under the Archbishopric of Trier.
Laubach belonged to the high court district of Masburg (which was owned by the Counts of Virneburg), and owed its tithes to Saint Castor’s Monastery in Karden (even after the Electorate of Trier took over).
Nearby, the two Roman roads, the one between Bingen and Koblenz and the one between Oberwesel and Treis, crossed each other, leading to the assumption that the complex was likely built in Roman times.
Maria van Eicken (1571 in Brussels – 21 April 1636 in Porta Angelica Monastery, Flaumbach Valley, near Treis-Karden) was the wife of the Margrave Edward Fortunatus of Baden-Baden.
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 2 km northeast of Kastellaun and 14 km southeast of the Moselle at Treis-Karden.
Treis-Karden | Karden | ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Treis-Karden | Treis-Karden (Verbandsgemeinde) | Treis |
# "Treis i ora" - 3:18 - (Thanasis Polykandriotis-Ifigeneia Giannopoulou) - (Greek: Τρεις η ώρα)