sentences:  Dhaun Waldgravial-Rhinegravial rule ended in 1574 when the brothers split their father’s inheritance and Johann Christoph moved his residence to Grumbach, thereby founding the Rhinegraves at Grumbach, a noble house that lasted until the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.One peculiarity was the village’s Imperial immediacy and Imperial Statehood, which gave Grumbach a seat and a vote at the Imperial Diet ("Reichstag"), which supposedly likewise lasted until the Empire’s downfall; this was unique among places now within the Kusel district, and was the result of a 1475 Imperial edict raising the Dhaun-Grumbach line to Imperial Counts.In this time, an administrative structure began to form in which "Amt" and state administration, the latter in the form of the chancellery, each had its seat in Grumbach.