sentences:  The Reformed school assistant Valentin Meßing, who taught from 1720 to 1729 in "Conken" (as it was spelt in those days) complained in 1731 that he had not been paid since Saint Martin's Day (11 November) 1730.He was owed half a barrel of grain by each "Gemeindsmann" (male citizen).From the same year came news that "the villages of Langenbach and Herschweiler together with Pfettersheim" were building schoolhouses and wanted to hire their own schoolteacher.