sentences:  From a document made out about 1200, the reader gathers that Emmerich von Löwenstein received from the Counts of Zweibrücken as a fief for service rendered one third of the tithes at Aschbach.In 1377, two inhabitants of "Ober Aspach", among many other guarantors, vouched for the nobleman Gerhard von Lauterecken, who swore an oath of loyalty to the Count of Veldenz together with his wife and sons Henne and Heinzmann on pain of having to pay one thousand "Gulden" if the oath were ever broken.The two men in question were Dyle Baltzen's son Godel and a man named Gerhard.