 Within these none too fathomable development phases arose Krottelbach, but only during the 14th century, according to author Fritz Kleinschmidt's theory, at the forks of the various brooks, and as a branch settlement of the Cheiz Estate, and thus after Count Gerlach V's 1258 bequest.The village's name appears for the first time in a 1355 boundary description, in which the Imperial domain's original boundary was transcribed.The relevant part reads