sentences:  Since "fist law" ("Faustrecht" in German) goes back to the 11th century, and since a Konken parish record says that Count Emrich von Nahegau had owned Kusel and ascribed to his son, Gerlach I, both Kusel and "Schloß Pettersheim" (the castle/palace in question) in the "Vogtei" of Remigiusberg in 1030, it can be inferred that the "Schloss" was built in the 11th century.One of the mightiest "Gaue" was the Nahegau, to which Herschweiler-Pettersheim belonged.As "Vögte", the counts also had the duty of protecting the "Remigiusland" as an ecclesiastical landhold, but they now sought to take it over for themselves.