sentences:  According to E. Christmann, the village grew up in connection with the moated castle, whose name, Petersheim, was chosen by its builder, and whose meaning is simply "Peter's Home".The 1458 spelling "Pedersheym" was one that lasted up until about the time when French Revolutionary troops plundered the castle in 1793.The Palatinate-Zweibrücken government councillor David König wrote of "das Haus Pettersheim" as early as 1677 in his description of the duchy.