 This village lay in the valley of the Aschbach, which empties into the Glan between Offenbach and Wiesweiler.The prefix "Nieder—" is cognate with and means the same as the English "nether", and served to distinguish the village from Aschbach farther upstream.Between Hundheim and Nerzweiler, on the Talbach’s right bank, once lay a small village named Letzweiler, which was never mentioned again in documents after the Thirty Years' War.