sentences:  In 1543, Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken transferred to his uncle Ruprecht holdings so that he could found his own county palatine.Belonging to this were Veldenz on the Moselle, the "Ämter" of Lauterecken and Reichenbach, the Remigiusberg and later also Lützelstein (now called La Petite-Pierre) in Alsace.The residence town was at first Lauterecken.