sentences:  The village of Gries therefore arose on a field with sandy soil.The old form of the name matched the current spelling of the common German noun, "Grieß", with an “ß”, even in the 1383 first documentary mention and almost all subsequent important historical documents, although the form "Griß" also sometimes cropped up.The current spelling seems to have first arisen in an 1824 listing of all places in the Bavarian Rhenish District (that is, the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate).