sentences:  According to Dieter Zenglein's work in the chronicle, Brücken belonged with respect to ecclesiastical organization to the parish of Ohmbach as a branch with a chapel.The parish's main church had been given over as early as 976 to the Disibodenberg Monastery by Archbishop of Mainz Willigis.The Disibodenberg Monastery's holdings in the Oster valley and around Ohmbach were sold in 1256 to Count Gerlach V of Veldenz, who in turn, together with his wife Elisabeth, bequeathed these landholds and rights to the Wörschweiler Monastery in 1257.