 Being a village of roughly the same size, and assuming four persons to each household, Kaulbach would have had some 50 inhabitants around 1500.Around 1600, Kaulbach had 14 hearths and Kreimbach 15, according to Forest Master Vellmann’s description of the "Amt" of Wolfstein.Even 56 years after the Thirty Years' War, in 1684, Kreimbach’s population had still only reached half what it had been before the war.