 Founded in Oberweiler was a piano-building firm named Eichler, although this later moved its workshops to Hinzweiler.According to 1743 statistics, there were only free men heading families, and no "Hintersassen" (roughly, “dependent peasants”), whereas in 1590, four serfs had been named.Among craftsmen, who only farmed as a secondary occupation, four linen weavers were counted, along with one stocking weaver, three wainwrights, three tailors, two bricklayers, one blacksmith, one shoemaker, one cooper, one carpenter, one cabinetmaker and the miller.