 Among these villages where “the poor people” lived was quite possibly Unterjeckenbach, but not Oberjeckenbach.In 1448, Grumbach itself along with the villages already named was pledged to the newly founded County Palatine of Zweibrücken.The village known in that same year as "Freyjeckenbach" – the prefix, spelt "frei" in modern German, means “free” – was so called because the villagers did not have to pay any taxes.