sentences:  After all, a 1746 Grumbach court protocol dealt with a meadow that lay "behind the church", and to this day there is a part of the village called "an der Kirche" ("at the Church").The village may have sprung up around the church.Researcher Otto Karsch, nevertheless, held the view that the village's name did not go back to the church, but rather that "kar" or "kir" was a word meaning "membership in a kindred group" or "kin".