 It is likely that throughout the Middle Ages, only a few houses stood around the church, only the rectory and the estate with various outbuildings.Likely more heavily settled was the now vanished village of Lanzweiler, lying somewhat lower down than Neunkirchen.In 1543, Count Palatine and later Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken transferred to his uncle Ruprecht lands for the founding of his own county palatine.