 The Counts of Veldenz, as feudal lords over the dale’s "poor people" (as of 1444, this was instead the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken) chose as their seat the village of Nerzweiler, which between 1350 and 1451 was always named in documents as the seat of the Nerzweiler "Amt".It can thus be assumed not only that from the mid 12th century until about the middle of the 14th century, Hundheim was the "Amt" seat for the whole dale (and thus the "Hun’s" seat), but also that the "Hun’s" function thereafter and until the middle of the 15th century lay at Nerzweiler.Later still, records speak of the "Hundheimer Pflege" (literally "care", but actually a local geopolitical unit), and thus Hundheim also became an "Amt" seat in the Late Middle Ages.