sentences:  It is presumed that the area was settled continuously from the Bronze Age until the Roman conquest.There might have been a fairly long interruption in the otherwise continuous habitation of the area after the Romans withdrew and before the Franks took over the land.The area around Frohnhofen belonged in Frankish times to the Free Imperial Domain ("Reichsland") around the town and castle of Kaiserslautern and more locally to the court of Kübelberg, which beginning in 1312 was held as an Imperial pledge by a whole succession of secular lordships (the Electorate of the Palatinate, the County of Veldenz, the County of Sponheim).