The constituent community of Fehl had its first documentary mention on 6 January 1307 when Count Heinrich III of Nassau-Siegen and his wife Adelheid confirmed the existing revenue for the abbot and convent of the Marienstatt Cistercian Monastery in Velde (=Fehl) and Graynsiven (=Großseifen).

The first mention by name of Roitzhusen comes from 27 October 1340; in his will, the knight Eberhard Daube von Selbach bequeathed to his widow Sophia a pension out of the village tithes that were owed him.

Indeed, Fehl’s inhabitants did settle on a waterway – the river Nister – whereas to the north, the Ritzhauseners lived under the Scheidchen castle’s protection, which shielded them from, among other things, the northwest wind which brought snow.

When brown coal pits opened in Höhn in 1746 and four years later in Stockhausen, Fehl-Ritzhauseners were offered another way to earn an income.

In late 1944 and early 1945, however, there were three Allied air raids on the community, their main target being the railway station.

Some local families, such as Neeb, Schell, Schürg, Stalp and Steup were struck a second time in the Second World War.

The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.