 This mention makes clear that Selchenbach was then in heavily wooded country.Already by the late 13th century, the family Blick von Lichtenberg had taken over the "Vogtei" over the Wörschweiler Monastery's ecclesiastical holdings within the County of Veldenz.In the Late Middle Ages, the abbots at the Wörschweiler Monastery and the monastery's "Vögte" established a "Schöffengericht", a court at which "Schöffen" (roughly “lay jurists”) presided.