 The population grew once again, and there was even emigration for the first time.In Merzweiler once lived Johannes Bückler's (1777–1803) grandparents, whose notorious grandson was better known as Schinderhannes.Bückler's grandfather Otto Philipp Bückler was born about 1709 in Hilscheid in the Idar Forest near Thalfang, worked as a headsman and a knacker and died in 1777 in Merzweiler.