sentences:  In the 1744 mill protocol initiated by Duke Christian IV and developed by Chamber of Finance Secretary Johann Friedrich Marx, the upper village was still called "Dorf Herschweiler" ("Village of Herschweiler").On 23 April 1387, Pettersheim had its first documentary mention in a document dealing with a division of holdings from Counts Heinrich III and Friedrich II of Veldenz as Castle "Pederßheim".The name "Pettersheim" is not one of the older group of villages with named ending in "—heim" ("home", even in modern-day German).