 According to Father Michael Frey's (1788–1854) "Beschreibung des Rheinkreises" (“Description of the Rheinkreis”, that is, the Palatinate during the time after the Congress of Vienna when it was Bavarian), it was sometime about 1181 that the lowland castle was built.This castle belonged as a fief from Prüm Abbey in the Eifel to the Lords of Bolanden.Known to have been among the earliest "Burgmannen" are Meffried von Reipoltskirchen (about 1196) and Jakob Boos zu Reipoltskirchen (1209).