sentences:  While Herschweiler-Pettersheim may have been important enough to have a palace in its skyline in the 17th and 18th centuries, according to a 1704 report, the castle, Schloss Pettersheim, was old, small and in disrepair, and had no more than two or three rooms.During the time of Duke Gustav's rule (1718-1731), the "ruined castle and estate of Peddersheim (archaic spelling)", on which major conversion work was done in 1725, together with the two villages of Herschweiler and Pettersheim with all their income that in any way has anything to do with the inhabitants passed, in defiance of Duke Wolfgang's will, as a patrilineal fief to the privy councillor, chief hunting councillor and chief court councillor Johann Heinrich von Hoffmann, in return for military service.Herschweiler's and Pettersheim's inhabitants were then beholden to this new lord as his subjects.