sentences:  Hindering the provision of winter school lessons in many of these small villages was a seemingly neverending dearth of teachers.Seminary students had to teach alongside their own studies, and thus in the winter of 1785, the teacher in Ehweiler was fourteen-year-old Friedrich Jakob Hilles, whose father was Nikolaus Hillig, who had been born in Thallichtenberg and who at the time of his son's teaching engagement in Ehweiler was the schoolteacher in Konken.In 1792, the schoolteacher was a man named Johann Theobald Theiß.