sentences:  Adenbach lay originally in the territory of the Counts of the Nahegau, from whom the new noble family of the Counts of Veldenz branched off about 1127.To a great extent, these counts acted as "Schutzvögte" – roughly “protectors” – over ecclesiastical holdings, namely those around Bad Sobernheim and Odernheim am Glan belonging to the Archbishopric of Mainz, those around Baumholder and Medard belonging to the Bishopric of Verdun, those around Obermoschel belonging to the Bishopric of Worms and the "Remigiusland" around Kusel belonging to the Archbishopric of Reims.Adenbach lay within this new County of Veldenz and was later repeatedly wholly or partly granted as a fief to comital vassals.