 The two archbishoprics’ holdings belonged originally to the Imperial Domain ("Reichsland") around the Royal Castle Lautern.The village of Selchenbach is known with certainty only to have arisen a few hundred years after a Frankish king donated the lands to the Archbishoprics of Reims and Mainz.In 1127, Count Gerlach I from the Nahegau founded the County of Veldenz and became at the same time the "Schutzvogt" over the ecclesiastical properties in question.