 Both villages lay in the so-called "Remigiusland", which at about the same time as Oberalben's and Meyweiler's first documentary mention was taken over by the Counts of Veldenz as a "Vogtei".The villages lay moreover in the north of this territory.A 1355 border description in a "Grenzscheidweistum" (a "Weistum" – cognate with English "wisdom" – was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times; this one described how a border ["Grenze"] was to divide ["scheiden"] the "Remigiusland" from its neighbour) makes it clear that the local area was a border zone by mentioning the local stream, and also a local, now vanished, village