 In the 6th and 7th centuries, at the time when the Franks, a Germanic tribe, were taking over the land, a Frankish settlement arose in the Odenbach valley roughly where the Nußbach (formerly the Hahnenbach) empties into the Odenbach.It was called "Hundheim am Steg".Sometime about 980, a Frank named Richbald built a church about a kilometre northwest of Hundheim am Steg.