sentences:  The ecclesiastical hub of this area was at first the "Hirsauer Kirche", a church near Hundheim, which at this time still bore the name "Glena" or "Glan", or possibly "Neuenglan" ("Nieuwen Glena"), in contrast to Altenglan ("Gleni").This "Glena" became the seat of a "Hund", which, despite the word's meaning in Modern High German (“dog”), was actually an official with an administrative function over the whole dale for the actual owners.Thus, the administrative seat of Glan at the place where the brook emptied into the river Glan now acquired the name Hundheim.