 At the time of its founding, the village still lay in the Imperially immediate "Reichsland" of the "Vosagus" (the Vosges) lying in a broad area around the royal estate at Lautern (Kaiserslautern).No later than sometime during the 14th century, the Imperially immediate areas around Kaiserslautern were given to counties that bordered on the "Reichsland" as Imperial pledges.Thus Niederstaufenbach, together with Bosenbach, Elzweiler, Horschbach and all the villages in the "Eßweiler Tal" (dale), passed into the ownership of the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Grumbach, whereas the villages of the "Amt" of Reichenbach passed to the County of Veldenz.