 According to the old border descriptions of the "Remigiusland", the centres of Matzenbach and Gimsbach, which now lie within the municipality of Matzenbach, lay outside the Bishopric of Reims holdings in the Westrich, in the Free Imperial Domain ("Reichsland"), which spread out broadly around Castle Lautern (a castle in Kaiserslautern).The centre of Eisenbach, on the other hand, lay within the Reims-controlled "Remigiusland", which shaped this village's history in a way unlike the other two in the municipality.The "Reichsland" was given as an Imperial pledge to various regional lords in the mid 14th century.