sentences:  Since pre-Germanic names of bodies of water were sometimes preserved in the region, there might possibly have been a very short time in settlement continuity between Gallo-Roman times and Frankish settlement.Nevertheless, it seems unlikely that a village of Albessen already existed in Gallo-Roman times.Likelier is that the brook's pre-Germanic name was preserved and then later applied to a newer settlement, one founded in the time when Germanic settlers were establishing themselves.