sentences:  According to researchers Dolch and Greule, the name means “Fockilo’s settlement” or “Fockilo’s field”, making no apparent reference to the placename ending "—berg", which means “mountain” in German.No vanished villages are known to have lain within Föckelberg's current limits, but Goswin Widder, writing in 1788, mentioned a "Wüsthube" (roughly, a hide of land where a village once stood), but he did not elaborate.From the village's founding, the villagers of Föckelberg belonged to a parish whose seat was Neunkirchen am Potzberg.