sentences:  As for the Ahlenbornerhof, the ending "—hof" means “farm” or “estate”, and the syllables to which that is suffixed apparently refer to an old spring, for the homestead once lay near one (this would be "bei einem alten Brunnen" in Modern High German).Inhabitants of both constituent villages, Hefersweiler and Berzweiler, converted during the Reformation to Lutheranism under the principle of "cuius regio, eius religio".Only a few Catholics and Reformed adherents settled in Hefersweiler after the Thirty Years' War.