 With the exception of Reichartsweiler, the villages lay in the so-called "Remigiusland", the territory held by the Bishopric of Reims around Kusel and Altenglan, which in 952 was transferred into the ownership of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims.Only Reichartsweiler lay outside this "Remigiusland" in the free Imperial domain of Kaiserslautern.In 1112, Count Emich's son, named Gerlach, from the Nahegau took over several "Vogteien" (security functions) over various lands held by ecclesiastical lordships (Mainz, Worms, Verdun, Reims), and out of these, together with some lands already under his own ownership in the Nahegau, he founded the so-called County of Veldenz, named after the Episcopal-Verdun holding around Schloss Veldenz on the river Moselle.