 When the counts palatine (dukes) had the "Königreicher Hof" (“Kingdom Estate”) built in 1762, they called in all the “Kingdom’s” pledged landholds and then set the Estate up as a hereditary pledged landhold.In the 1588 description of the "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg by geographer Johannes Hoffmann, the village of Selchenbach, too, is named, specifically in a description of the course of the local brook, although Hoffmann called this “"Die große Herchweiler Bach"” ("große" means “great”), and not the Selchenbach as it is known today.Oberselchenbach and Unterselchenbach belonged to different parishes, the former to Niederkirchen and the latter to Konken.