There is no distinct creek with this name. The name Ochsenbach (exen creek) stands for the location where the creeks Sulzbach and Hainbuchentaler Bach flow together, flow a few meters…

Popularly Im / Am / De Woog The word Woog comes from the Middle High German „wac, wage“, which means something like pond. Before the Thirty Years‘ War, the three…

In the 18th century, the three-field farming with cattle drives was still prevalent in Kottweiler and Schwanden which meant the houses had no stables and there was no stable feeding…

Between the two basins “Bruchwiese” and “Alter Weiher” on the Schwenderbach steep slope, the “Braunenberg” rises up to a height of 302 meters. At the time of the original cadastre,…

Vernacular: In de Altwiss Between Fuchshübel and Braunenberg, an approximately 250-meter-long side valley runs up the steep slope from the Schwenderbach creek. In the early 18th century, a fish pond…

The Schwenderbach rises between the neighboring communities of Fockenberg-Limbach and Reuschbach and marks the boundary to the neighboring villages along its course. In the 16th century, at least three different…

The extensive forest area between the Rothenberger Höhenweg ridgeway and the Schwenderbach creek is known as the “Kohlwald” (coal forest). The name most likely goes back to the charcoal burner…

„Hainbuchental“ is historically the earliest field name documented by sources in our village. In the village name literature, the “Hanbuch” is even listed as an abandoned village. The linguistic form…

The name is documented in both 1682 and 1845 in the original cadastre. „Lanze“ (lance) refers to the narrow, elongated shape of the meadow valley. „Hessel“ stands for hazel bush,…

Between the Schnellbach and Lanzenhesseltal valleys, a narrow ridge protrudes from the boundary near Fockenberg to the southeast into the Hainbuchental valley. It is the open field “Auf den Gemeindeäckern”…