During work in a gravel pit at the Linsenkopf, shattered urns and grave goods were uncovered, a bronze clasp was given to the priest of the time, and other finds ended up in the local museum of Bad Liebenstein.

Following the establishment of the Bistum Erfurt and the monastery of Fulda by the Anglo-Saxon papal authorised bishop Winfrid, better known as Boniface, the uninterrupted work of the church began in the 8th century.

In the year 933 Barchfeld and Breitungen were mentioned for the first time in the so-called royal charter of Henry I. as "Barcuelda" and "Bretinga".

The document, which was reproduced in the Royal Chancellery, describes the boundaries of the Mark Breitungen, which were located at an important Werra ford and covered an area of about 280 square kilometres.

The original village was surrounded by a fortification of ramparts, fences and ditches and had two gates - the Schenkentor was located next to the inn "Zur Sonne", through the Fischertor one reached the Nürnberger Straße, the old army road in the Werratal.

The Frankensteins' attempts to assert themselves against the strongest powers in the region - the Fulda monastery and the Thuringian landgraves - led to their decline.

Through marriage and inheritance in 1527, Ludwig von Boyneburg zu Gerstungen, the court judge of Hesse, came into the possession of the lords of Herda.

The Lords of Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld had the Steinsche Schloss built between 1571 and 1581 in the Stylish Renaissance style; it was located directly next to the former moat.

[4][5] Apparently during this time the first wooden bridge over the Werra was built, but its existence was short-lived due to flooding and ice.

[7] A large fire caused by a bell caster in September 1753 destroyed almost all the courtyards and buildings of the village, including the church and the rectory.

[8] Foreign haulers needed pre-tensioning services and provisions, so the Barchfeld population also received work and earning opportunities.

In the first third of the 19th century, the country roads were gradually expanded as cobbled chausseen: in 1828, the Nürnberger Straße was expanded in several construction lots from Eisenach to Meiningen, from 1836 to 1837 the Chaussee was built from Immelborn to Bad Salzungen, in 1845 the gap was closed to the road to Schweina, in 1858 the newly planned Liebensteiner Straße was built.

In order to develop the area around Schweina and Steinbach, which is also important for mining, the Immelborn-Barchfeld-Liebenstein-Schweina railway line was built in three years and inaugurated in 1889.

[11] In October 1944, an American Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") was shot down at an altitude of about 7000m during the air battles over Thuringia.

The nine-strong crew managed to get out of the plane over the Eichsfeld, which now reached Barchfeld without a pilot and descended on the meadows at the Werraufer.