 The immediate area, though, was quite heavily settled in Gallo-Roman times.An article by Daniel Hinkelmann in the first postwar edition of the "Westricher Heimatblätter" was headlined “Three Roman Estates in the Thallichtenberg Municipal Area” ("Drei römische Gutshöfe auf der Gemarkung Thallichtenberg").A Roman bathing facility had already been unearthed about the middle of the 18th century in the municipality.