sentences:  Likelier, though, is that it is a founding that dates from later Frankish times.Written records about Albessen show that the village was dependent on the branch monastery of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims and the County of Veldenz on the Remigiusberg, meaning that it lay in the so-called "Remigiusland" founded in the late 6th century, and in the County of Veldenz, whose counts had been the "Schutzvögte" (roughly, “protectors”) of the "Remigiusland" since 1112.The younger line of the Counts of Veldenz ended in 1444.