 As in Kübelberg and Wolfstein, it could be that a castle was built at Theisbergstegen in Emperor Barbarossa's time to safeguard the western frontier; it also, as “Deinsburg”, gave a family of lesser nobility its name.After a newer castle, the Michelsburg, was built on the Remigiusberg, the older one was called, fittingly enough, "Alte Burg" (“Old Castle”).Stegen still belonged to the "Remigiusland" and more locally to the "Schultheißerei" of Pfeffelbach.