 The founding likely actually came later, but certainly long before the village’s first documentary mention.Ruthweiler lay in the "Remigiusland" and thus became a holding of the County of Veldenz in the early 12th century, and like all villages in this state, ended up in 1444 under the overlordship of the then newly founded County Palatine of Zweibrücken.The village’s first documentary mention in 1267 (according to Weingarth) comes from a taxation book from the monastery on the Remigiusberg.