Research of this nature relies heavily on private documents and obscure publications. I offer the following bibliography less as a guide to other researchers and more as a means of giving credit where it is due.
I must acknowledge my tremendous debt to two German colleagues (and distant relatives) for their friendship, personal and professional generosity, and help-Wolfgang Sonneborn of Wuppertal, and Karl-Ernst Riedesel of Bad Berleburg. I could not have begun to compile this small history without the resources they have supplied.
Birkelbach, Wolfgang. "Die Familiengeschichte des Wittgensteiner Zimmermeisters Mannus Riedesel, oder Die Riedesel in Herjes- Haus in der Melbach." Wittgenstein, Volume 44, Number 4, December 1980. Pp. 114-123. Continued in Volume 53, Number 1, March 1981. Pp. 18-25.
Hippental, Gerhard and Werner Wied (eds). Wittgenstein III-ein Lesebuch zur Volkskunde und Mundart des Wittgensteiner Landes. Verlagsgemeinschaft Wittgensteiner Buchhändler. Laasphe, 1984.
von Hofmann, Albert. Das Deutsche Land und die Deutsche Geschichte. Deutsche Verlag. Stuttgart, 1923.
Hobbs, Emma Wetter. History and Genealogy of the Wetter-Miller- Schneider-Riedesel Families in Europe and America. Privately published. Ogallala, Nebraska, 1947.
Jakobi, Winfried and Werner Wied (eds). Bilder aus Wittgenstein. Wittgensteiner Heimatsverein. Bad Berleburg, 1986.
Knoche, Wilhelm. Familien Chronik. Privately published. Berleburg, 1916-1920.
Kramer, Fritz (ed). Wunderthausen/Diedenshausen-ein Dorfbuch. Gebrüder Zimmerman. Balve, 1978.
Lauber, Georg (ed). Birth and death records of Wunderthausen.
Lauber, Georg (ed). History of residents of each house in Wunderthausen.
Naumann, Joachim. "Die Schulkapelle in Sassenhausen und Zimmermeister Mannes Riedesel." Wittgenstein, Volume 44, Number 4, December 1972. Pp. 206-211.
Presbyterium Wunderthausen (eds). Evangelische-reformierte Kirchengemeinde Wunderthausen-Diedenshausen 1891-1991. Privately published. Raumland, 1991.
Richter, Helmut. "Der Dambach." Wittgenstein, Volume 36, Number 4, December 1972. Pp. 206-211.
Riedesel, Karl-Ernst. "Causes for Emigration from the German Counties of Wittgenstein." Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society, Volume 18, Number 1, November 1986. Pp. 56-60.
Riedesel, Paul. The Riedesels in America. Privately published. Minneapolis, 1980.
Sante, Georg Wilhelm. Handbuch der Historischen Stätten, Kroner Verlag. Stuttgart, 1960.
Schöner, H. G. Studien zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte: Die Altere Ornamentik in Ysenburger, Schlitzer, und Riedeselschen Wappen. Heitz & Mundel. Strassburg, 1914.
Wasilewski, Werner (ed). Kulturhistorisches Bad Berleburg. Verlages Martin Kuhn. Bad Berleburg, 1981.
Wied, Werner. "Beitrage zur Geschichte der Alt-Bauernhofe im Balde, Melbach, und Rohrbach." Erndtebrück-ein Heimatbuch des obersten Edertals, Volume II. Erndtebrück, 1977.
Wied, Werner. "Die Geschichte des Dorfes Sassenhausen und seiner Kapelle." Wittgenstein, Volume 52, Number 1, March 1988. Pp. 147-159. Continued in Volume 52, Number 2, June 1988. Pp. 147-159.
Wied, Werner. "Noch Einmal: Sassenhausen und seine Riedesel- Kapelle." Wittgenstein, Volume 53, Number 1, March 1989. Pp. 15-16.
Wied, Werner. "Berleburg Parkstrasse 5-das Logausche Haus: Ein Stuck Haus- und Familiengeschichte." Wittgenstein, Volume 53, Number 2, June 1989. Pp. 42-50.
Wrede, Gunther. Territorialgeschichte der Graftschaft Wittgenstein. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Marburg, 1927.