 Complete the following phrase:  The former village of Niederaschbach, which was always named in old documents as one of the Eßweiler Tal villages, lay northwest of todays village of Aschbach, which itself was once known as Oberaschbach Ober and Nieder are cognate with English over and nether, and mean upper and lower, respectively. Johannes Hofmann had this to say about Niederaschbach in 1595 the village had already been forsaken by that time: In this Aschbach Ground, a rifle shot from the Glan, lay the village of Niederaschbach, of which only old walls are now to be seen. Was a great village, which, as the old people say, was made to suffer a war and a fire by the old Gerken, or Armagnacs as they call themselves. The Armagnacs were a cohort of mercenaries under the French Count of Armagnac Bernard VII, who in the early 15th century waged a 