 This has caused some difficulty in ascertaining what the village's population was then, for in the so-called "Konker Protokollen", the 12 hearths (for this, read “households”) with 65 inhabitants listed for Krottelbach were actually only the ones on the north side of the brook, in the parish of Konken.Corresponding statistics for the part of the village on the south bank are not available.All in all, though, the village as a whole may have been rather big for the circumstances of that time.