 They had significant support from municipal officials Otto Steinhauer and Karlheinz Egerer.On 7 June 1969, the "Bürgermeisterei" (“Mayoralty”) of Kreimbach was dissolved and the two hitherto self-administering municipalities of Kreimbach and Kaulbach were merged into one new one under the name Kreimbach-Kaulbach, an arrangement under which the two "Ortsteile" barely have any further administrative role.Ernst Christmann drew from the 12 "tax chickens" from Kreimbach that had to be paid to New Wolfstein Castle in 1497 the conclusion that this meant that there were also 12 households there at the time.