 As described above, the Veldenz line died out for lack of a male heir in 1444, and the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken was founded.Gimsbach shares Matzenbach's history as part of the "Reichsland", and was also among those villages pledged in 1345 as a "Vogtei" to the Counts of Veldenz (see above).From late Veldenz times in 1430 – only 14 years before the comital family died out – comes a report that "Burgmann" Syfrit Blick von Lichtenberg bequeathed to his wife Katharina von Sötern, on the occasion of her having been given a widow's endowment of benefices from many villages, two "Malter" of rye and oats from Gimsbach.