sentences:  Brücken was the economic hub of Palatine diamond crafting up until the Second World War.However, the diamond-cutting trade that for so many decades influenced and defined the local people's lives is now all but a relic from bygone days, with the last diamond-cutting shops going out of business in the 1990s.All that is left of the industry now are two diamond cutters who work bort diamonds for industry, and that as a secondary occupation only.