 The family Fust von Stromberg sold Wiesweiler, likely in 1557, to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves.Since the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken were Wiesweiler's supreme fiefholders, there was no basis in law for this sale, and therefore in 1558, Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Philipp Franz forsook his rights and claims in Wiesweiler in favour of Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, but Philipp Franz's loss was offset somewhat by Wolfgang's payment of an indemnity amounting to 500 "Gulden".Beginning at this time, the village belonged to the "Schultheißerei" of Lauterecken in the like-named "Oberamt".