 The Counts Palatine (Dukes) of Zweibrücken had not forgone their protector rights over the provostry, however.Thus, the village in principle lay under two lordships, the abbey under Zweibrücken and the rest of the market village under the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Grumbach.It might well have been that the composition of "Schöffen" (roughly "lay jurists") could be traced back to the old "Offenbacher Recht" ("Offenbach Law")