sentences:  This "Reichsland" was pledged from Imperial power to territorial princes during the reigns of Emperors Ludwig IV (“the Bavarian”; 1314-1347) and Karl IV (1346-1378).Thus, all villages in the "Amt" of Reichenbach passed in 1345 as an Imperial pledge to Count Georg I of Veldenz.Even though Föckelberg's first documentary mention would not come until 1397, this certainly included Föckelberg, for it had existed for a few centuries already before its first mention.