sentences:  Johann Casimir owned a half share in the village of Friedelhausen, but eventually acquired the other half in 1588 by trading Berzweiler to the holder of the other share, the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.Even at the onset of the Thirty Years' War, there were no longer any people living at the village's estates, and long after the war, the village remained empty of people.Berzweiler belonged in a manner of speaking to Zweibrücken, but only as a pledged holding.