 The village was originally a linear village (or "thorpe"), like Offenbach, lying on a road that swept round in a bow from the Glan valley (towards Hirsau Church, "Hirsauer Kirche", an old country church, now no longer used, that still stands near Hundheim) to the Talbach.The village first spread to the southeastern mountain slope and to the Glan bridge, and then along the original road towards Nerzweiler.Last, it spread to the eastern mountain slope, where a new building zone sprang up.