 Sankt Julian, Eschenau, Obereisenbach and Niederalben (along with the vanished villages of Ohlscheid, Hunhausen and Grorothisches Gericht) quite likely had a jointly held woodland and a common, splitting these up among themselves only in the course of time.All this explains the tangle of municipal boundaries.In 1905 these villages’ municipal areas together still spread over 1 856 ha of land, matching the area occupied by the old "Vierherrengericht".