 After the founding of the French Department of Sarre with its capital at Trier in 1801, Theisbergstegen lay in the Canton of Kusel in the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld.In the Bavarian time that followed, the village first belonged to the "Landkommissariat" of Kusel and took turns with Godelhausen as seat of a "Bürgermeisterei" (“mayoralty”).The municipality that exists today was newly formed on 7 June 1969 out of the municipalities of Theisbergstegen and Godelhausen as a result of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate.