sentences:  The convent at Sulzbach lost much of its original importance when, in the course of the 14th century, another of the Order’s seats sprang up in Meisenheim, where travel links were more favourable.As greatly important as the Order of Saint John might have been for the village, the Herren-Sulzbach villagers themselves were held to be subjects of the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves.Thus, the village, along with others, was pledged in 1363 by Johann von Dhaun to Sponheim-Starkenburg.