sentences:  The village of Brücken belonged from the time of its founding to the free Imperial Domain ("Reichsland") around the town and castle of Kaiserslautern and the "Amt" and court district of Kübelberg in this domain.This "Amt" of Kübelberg, beginning in 1312, was taken over in succession by a whole series of secular lordships as an Imperial pledged holding, passing first to the Counts of Sponheim and in 1375 to Electoral Palatinate, and then in 1378 back to Sponheim, only to pass once again to Electoral Palatinate in 1437.Sometime before 1333 – the exact date is unknown – Brücken had its first documentary mention in 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 Glan-Münchweiler in which the boundaries of the landhold held by the Hornbach Monastery in the Münchweiler Tal (dale) were outlined, in both German and Latin.