 Merzweiler must have been among these villages.Even before 1426, the Counts of Veldenz had granted the court at Merzweiler to the House of Boiz von Reipoltskirchen, first to Conrad Boiz, then to Hermann the Elder and last to Hermann the Younger.In 1438, the fief passed to Hermann the Younger's son-in-law, Godelmann Blick von Lichtenberg.