 Between 1945 and 1950 came a noticeable upswing from 520 to 575 inhabitants, brought about by ethnic Germans driven out of Germany's former eastern territories and people who had fled East Germany arriving in Niederalben.Between 1950 and 1960, the population grew at first only slowly, and then abruptly dropped off to about 500.Many of those who had been forced to come here left again seeking places with better industrial structure.