sentences:  Researchers Bruchmüller, Haubrichs and Spang believe that Romance-speakers were settled here by the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, which had holdings here.At the time of the transfer of sovereignty from the County of Veldenz to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken in 1444, Herschweiler and Pettersheim were named as villages of the "Schultheißerei" of Konken.In 1731, the school attendant Valentin Meßing mentioned the villages of "Langenbach and Herschweiler together with "Pfettersheim"".