 Misfortune befell Schellweiler in November 1994 when nine young people, among them three men born in Schellweiler, were killed when their van was crushed by an articulated transport truck at a construction site on the Autobahn while they were on their way to work.In 1995, Schellweiler placed second at the district level in the contest "Unser Dorf soll schöner werden" (“Our village should become lovelier”).The oldest record dealing with Schellweiler's inhabitants themselves dates from 1480.