sentences:  Only in 1430, though, did Herchweiler have its first documentary mention in a Veldenz document, according to which, under Count Friedrich III, the knight Siegfried Blick from Castle Lichtenberg bestowed upon his wife Katharina von Sötern a wealth of goods as a widow's estate, and also bestowed upon Herchweiler a yearly "Malter" of oats, and upon Herchweiler and Leitersweiler together a yearly "Malter" of grain.Nothing in the historical record up to that time eve gave a clue to a part of the village lying outside the Remigiusland and therefore outside the County of Veldenz.Count Friedrich III, however, never had a male heir, and was thus the last count of the earlier line of Veldenz.