 The Glan drives a camerally-hereditary mill on its right bank.Through Bersweiler also runs the road leading from Mainz by way of Kreuznach, Meisenheim to Zweibrücken and into Lorraine, which is why a toll is imposed in the village.”

During the time of the French Revolution and Napoleonic French rule, the Rhine’s left bank, and thereby Wiesweiler and Berschweiler too, were ceded to France.By this time, the two villages had been bound fast into one, under the name Wiesweiler.