sentences:  Then, the term "Kes" for “oak”, whether of Celtic or Germanic origin, would still have been known in the region.Within the region governed by the "Gericht auf der Höhe" (“Court on the Heights”), a parish likely existed in the Early Middle Ages whose hub was a church in the Kirrweiler area and to which Homberg, too, belonged.It would have lain within the Archbishopric of Mainz.