 This was not a village as such, but rather a smaller part of the village of Niederstaufenbach that did not belong to the "Amt" of Bosenbach, but rather to the "Amt" of Reichenbach.The village was mentioned as "Stauffenbach" in 1322 and 1377, as "nieder Stauffenbach" in 1393 and as "Loch Stauffenbach" in 1567.The word "Loch" that appears before the name in that last mention is most likely not the current German word "Loch" (generally understood to mean “hole”, and not related to the Gaelic word "loch"), but rather an old word meaning “light forest”.