 Both Oberalben and Mayweiler now shared a history with the County Palatine of Zweibrücken until this state was swept away in the events of the French Revolution.In 1570/1571, the Zweibrücken official Johannes Schlemmer described the "Amt" and "Gericht" (court district) of Baumholder and mentioned Oberalben as then having 12 houses, two of which stood on the Kuralb's left bank, thus putting them in the "Amt" of Baumholder.Mayweiler was given up as a village sometime around the year 1580, and for almost the next 200 years was not settled.