 In Berschweiler, the Lords of Kellenbach still held certain rights until the old feudal order was swept away in Napoleonic times, first and foremost rights to the forest.Like most Glan-area villages, Wiesweiler and Berschweiler, too, suffered much in the 17th century's wars, both the Thirty Years' War and King Louis XIV's wars.Nevertheless, the nearby residence town of Lauterecken offered the villagers shelter during the Thirty Years' War.