sentences:  It is believed that a village grew up bit by bit around a chapel.It was throughout the Middle Ages as seat of an "Unteramt" and as the hub of a parish always a place of greater importance than many.In 1112, Count Gerlach I, a scion of the Counts of the Nahegau, founded the new County of Veldenz and also exercised the "Schutzvogtei" (roughly “lord protectorship”) over the "Remigiusland".