 With Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig's death in 1694, the family Palatinate-Veldenz died out in the male line after four generations.There was, of course, a dispute over who would inherit his “orphaned” estate, but it ended with the Settlement of Mannheim on 24 December 1733.The "Schultheißerei" of Reichenbach, which included Rutsweiler, would henceforth belong to the Palatinate.