 When the "Remigiusland" was donated by a Frankish king in the 5th century to the Bishopric of Reims, the churches in "Osterna" (Niederkirchen, now an outlying centre of Sankt Wendel) and "Ouenbach" (Ohmbach) with Krottelbach did not belong to it.Rather, these two parishes remained first Imperial domain and only later, at an unknown time, were they given by a Frankish king as a donation to the Archbishopric of Mainz.In 976, Archbishop of Mainz Willigis (975-1011) brought about the refounding of the Disibodenberg Monastery, which then stood as the hub of archiepiscopal holdings in the lands on the Rhine’s left bank.