 Particular success has been had at offering and remodelling holiday homes to expand the tourism trade.During the 19th century, the population figures rose steadily but slowly, dropping off in the earlier half of the 20th century.Worthy of note, though, is the renewed growth in population figures in the latter half of the 20th century, at a time when this was hardly the general trend in villages in the Kusel district, most of which were losing people.