 The ending "—hof" simply means "estate" or "farm".The villages of Oberalben and Mayweiler in the "Remigiusland" in what is now the Western Palatinate, which from their founding to the time of the Reformation were held by the Archbishopric of Reims, were nonetheless subject under ecclesiastical organization to the Archbishopric of Mainz.Within the regional ecclesiastical organization, the villages might well have belonged from the beginning and even after the Reformation was introduced to the parish of Flurskappeln (Ulmet).