 The small graveyard lies in the village's south end on the road leading to Grumbach.It is certain that the Merzweiler area was settled in prehistoric times.In Roman times, a villa rustica stood where the village is now, and according to old literary citations, as early as 1756, the remnants of a round Roman temple with mighty stone blocks were unearthed, a complex with a diameter of some “200 paces”.