 Its name refers to another settler named Riso.In 1292, a man named Baldemarus von Resvilre was mentioned, a lesser nobleman.All that remained of the village's name up until the 19th century, after the village was forsaken – which happened even before the Thirty Years' War – was the name "Reisweiler Mühle", a mill on the Ohmbach within Krottelbach's limits, now known as the "Reismühle".