 Through the so-called Recess of Meisenheim in 1600, though, the villages of Haschbach and Stegen, too, passed to Palatinate-Veldenz-Lützelstein, putting Theisberg and Stegen under the same lordship once more, and indeed it would only be just over a century before the two villages were lastingly united into one municipality.In the meantime, wars ravaged the land