sentences:  The last count was Friedrich von Veldenz, whose daughter wed Stephan of Electoral Palatinate, who then took his own holdings, combined them with his wife's inheritance (the former County of Veldenz) and out of them founded the County Palatine (Duchy) of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.The village shared a history with the County Palatine of Palatinate-Zweibrücken up until its end in the time of the French Revolution.Like all villages in the region around Kusel, Albessen, too, suffered greatly under the effects of the Thirty Years' War.