 After the Romans withdrew, Frankish settlers came thrusting into the land.Rutsweiler's founding may have happened in the 7th or 8th century when territorial changes took place with the donation of the "Remigiusland".The prevailing version of the story about the donation of the "Remigiusland" by Frankish king Clovis I to the Bishop of Reims on the occasion of Clovis's baptism and conversion along with 3,000 other Franks in 496, has been called into question by historians, and is interpreted in various different versions.