sentences:  Beginning in 1437, the court of Kübelberg, and along with it the village of Altenkirchen, belonged to the Electoral Palatinate "Oberamt" of Kaiserslautern until the late 18th century.From the year 1542, a "Weistum" (cognate with English "wisdom", this was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times) from Altenkirchen has been preserved, according to which the successors of the then already late Junker Hans Blick von Lichtenberg from Bad Dürkheim, in the presence of, among others, the "Landschreiber" (in Electoral Palatinate, this was an official at the "Oberamt" level who had certain accounting and legal responsibilities), Job Weidenkopf from Lichtenberg Castle, held farming rights, and the "Schultheiß", Heinrich Korb von Kübelberg collected the fees.The "Weistum" mainly contains lists about the payments to be made by inhabitants of Altenkirchen and Frohnhofen.