 As a pilgrimage centre and seat of the "Vierherrengericht" ("Four-Lord Court"), the village was said to be a central place in the Glan valley, and to this day it can still claim a certain central placement.The formerly self-administering municipality of Sankt Julian had a great municipal area that bordered on the fields of neighbouring Eschenau, Niederalben, Obereisenbach and Niedereisenbach on the Glan’s left bank, while on the right bank it bordered on Gumbsweiler, Welchweiler, Horschbach and Hachenbach.These limits can be explained by the village’s mediaeval history.