sentences:  As a fief of the Hornbach Monastery with its hub at Glan-Münchweiler, all villages in the Münchweiler valley passed in 1323 first to the Raugraves in the Nahegau, and thereafter, in 1344, to the Archbishop of Trier and then to the Breidenborns.Gries likely arose sometime around 1100.The name "zuom ’griß" (as it was originally recorded) meant in Middle High German “gravelly, sandy ground”; the Modern High German word "Grieß" – pronounced the same way as “Gries” – still means “grit”, and is cognate with that English word.