For its particularly attractive location with a view of the Wildenburg (a nearby castle) and the Steinbachsee (a lake), the inhabitants sometimes call their municipality the Perle des Hochwalds (“Pearl of the High Forest”).

In the Middle Ages, the village's field area was made up of five Hufen (roughly “oxgangs”), which were held by five farmers under a Schultheiß.

This levy was later changed to a payment in money, namely 10 Gulden to the Kellerei (feudal administration) of the Amt in Allenbach.

In this time, scattered soldiers and refugees in the Idar Forest supposedly built themselves cabins near Langweiler, Hüttgeswasen and Tranenweier, among other places, and eked out their livelihoods as lumberjacks, charcoal makers, basket weavers and so on.

As subjects who were bound by oath to the Counts of Sponheim, they had free use of the Habschied woods for however many beechnuts they needed for their household swine.

After the Second World War, the house changed hands and now belongs to a Catholic women's order, which runs it as a home for the elderly and an orphanage.

[6] The German blazon reads: Schild, durch ein schmales, weißes Kreuz in vier Flächen aufgeteilt.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Quarterly, first and fourth chequy of nine gules and argent, second Or a baptismal font ensigned with a cross sable and third Or a charcoal kiln with fire and smoke proper.

The charge in sinister chief is an old baptismal font, named in the German blazon simply as a Gefäß (“vessel”).

During restoration work on the Haus Marienhöh, an old armorial stone was found in the main building's outer wall.