The open land here, scored by brooks, offered Old Stone Age hunter-gatherers ideal living conditions.

Precious artifacts yielded up by the grave included parts of a carriage and Etruscan bronze dishes, revealing something about these Princes’ power and wealth.

The villages were made up of loose groupings of farms around a central estate with a church and a graveyard, after whose owners the two centres were named.

In the turbulent 12th and 13th centuries, they were forsaken, resulting in the still observable townlike concentration of the settlements, which were shielded by hedgerows and ditches.

Armsheim's settlement structure shows the economic foundations on which the village was built, and also what the driving forces of its development were.

Standing as driving forces were Saint Remigius's Church (St. Remigius-Kirche) and the castle of the local lords, the Counts of Veldenz.

Parts of the old wall are preserved between the churchyard and Neugasse (lane), as are the Bielgraben (dyke) and underground passages.

The Gothic church's size and beauty reveal yet more about Armsheim's importance as a pilgrimage destination and a Veldenz town.

Traces of the destruction can be seen in Father Odenkemmer's gravestone in the church's chancel and in the shattered figure of a saint, which was walled up in an estate on the main street.

Not far above stands the old town hall, from whose façade comes the measurement standard, the iron ellwand, which is now fastened onto the Evangelical church's vestibule.

Not only had Armsheim lost its importance as an administrative seat and a pilgrimage centre, but nor was any business or trade forthcoming either.

The phases in the local history from the 16th century onwards can easily be gathered from the development of house and homestead forms.

After 1870 the houses show with their outbuildings how the new townsmen, who came mainly from the countryside, sought a livelihood in hired labour and agricultural sidelines (especially in the railway station area).

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3] Fléville-devant-Nancy has roughly 2,900 inhabitants and, as its name suggests, lies near Nancy.

The lower charge is canting, suggesting the municipality's name (“Arm” means the same in German as in English).

During intermission, concertgoers are treated to the Orgeltropfen (“organ drop”), a yearly special bottling of Armsheim wine, in the summertime church garden.

Under Mainz Professor Guido Ludes's leadership, various creative artists found themselves working together on this coöperative project.