 The monastery owner's fiefholders and lords protector over the ages were the Dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and then, when in 1673 the "Amt" of Wolfstein passed to Electoral Palatinate, the Counts Palatine of the Rhine.During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the village was destroyed, and many villagers were killed in the war, or died of the Plague.It is assumed that newcomers came to settle the village again after the war.