 Only at Secularization under Napoleon did the winemakers become the vineyard owners.Lieser lay on the Imperial road from Trier to Mainz and had at its disposal a ferry across the Moselle.Given this favourable location, a postal station was established in this unfortified village in the early 16th century on the Dutch Postal Route ("Niederländischer Postkurs") from Brussels by way of Augsburg to Innsbruck and Italy.