sentences:  It could have been a few years earlier, or a few hundred.Placename researchers do not rule out a founding as far back as pre-Germanic times.The County of Veldenz was founded in 1112, mainly out of various "Vogteien" over ecclesiastical landholds, particularly the "Remigiusland", a region around Kusel that belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims.