sentences:  It is, though, not altogether clear to what extent the Counts of Veldenz issued documents dealing with places that, after all, lay well beyond their territory (Frankfurt lies almost 90 km away from Cronenberg).The Counts Palatine (Dukes) of Zweibrücken introduced the Reformation as early as 1537.The 17th century was marked to a great degree by war, namely the Thirty Years' War and French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest.