 From 1544 comes an account that tells of a miller named Leonhard from Schweinfurt who held the village's upper mill in "Erbbestand" (a uniquely German landhold arrangement in which ownership rights and usage rights were separated; this is forbidden by law in modern Germany).In 1570, Ruthweiler was also liable for taxation to the knight Sir Stumpf of Simmern ("Ritter Stumpf von Simmern").Johannes Hoffmann described the village and its environs in his 1588 description of the "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg.