sentences:  Insofar as the street lying higher up – called, of course, Oberstraße – reached up the Middle Ages to the castle or to the settlement lying at its foot, this is something that cannot be determined today, although there is mention of "Burgmannen’s" houses “within and without” ("ußen und innen" in archaic German), and it is to be assumed that there would have been fortified structures at least at the way into this street.Despite having been granted town rights, the village remained wedged in between these two streets, and a town wall was never built.The way that the village has today quite contrarily spread out to the west was ensured by the Hundsgraben, which despite the ending "—graben" (“ditch”) is a natural waterway.