 This "Hof" – “farm” or “estate”, that is to say – belonged to the Benedictine monastery founded in Offenbach in 1150.The local settlers – and earlier those from the local area – had a “Frankish-heathen” place of worship out of which later grew Saint Michael’s Chapel.All together, the two centres of Kreimbach and Kaulbach lay within the so-called "Reichsland" (“Imperial Land”) or "Königsland" (“King’s Land”) around Kaiserslautern for a long time, until, beginning in the 14th century it was pledged to a series of lordships, one after the other, with the two villages first passing to the County of Veldenz with the Prince-Archbishopric of Trier, although by the mid 15th century, they had become Electoral Palatinate holdings.