 The Counts of Veldenz, as feudal lords over the dale's “poor people” (as of 1444, this was instead the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken) chose as their seat the village of Nerzweiler, which between 1350 and 1451 was always named in documents as the seat of the Nerzweiler "Amt".Count Friedrich III of Veldenz granted his wife Margarethe of Nassau-Saarbrücken this "Amt" as a widow's estate.After 1451, Hundheim once again appeared as the only administrative seat.