 The village likely passed as early as the 12th century to the County of Veldenz when this was founded by Count Gerlach I.Nevertheless, the village's name did not appear among those listed in the 1387 “brotherly partition” between Counts Friedrich and Heinrich of Veldenz either.However, that document does say, in archaic German, that Count Friedrich was to receive “"die dorffer und armelude zu Meisenheim, die bisher in das Ampt zu Meisenheim gehörig sind"” (“the villages and poor people at Meisenheim, which hitherto have belonged in the "Amt" at Meisenheim”).