 Other names that the village has borne over the ages are "Berswijlre uf dem Glane bi Winsewijlre" (1366), "Bersswilr" (1393), "daz gerichte zu Berßwilre" (1411) and "Berschweiller" (1581 and 1643).From the analysis of the placename ending "—weiler" and the prefix "Berni—", it would seem that the place must originally have been settled by a man named "Berni".A church may have stood in the "Ortsteil" of Berschweiler beginning in the Middle Ages; a Romanesque tower still stands today.