sentences:  Beginning in the time of the Reformation, the lords generally strove to establish schools in their domains.Since the Reformation had been introduced into both Hefersweiler and Berzweiler, schoolteachers may have been teaching children even before the Thirty Years' War.In both villages, even in Hefersweiler, which belonged to the Lordship of Reipoltskirchen, schooling was organized by the "Amt" of Meisenheim, which belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.