sentences:  The village's name, Herschweiler, has the common German placename ending "—weiler", which as a standalone word means "hamlet" (originally "homestead"), and which is derived from the Latin "villare", and indeed Herschweiler lies not far from the Roman villa rustica excavated from 1959 to 1961.The placename does not, as Ernst Christmann presumed, derive from the German word "Hirsch" ("hart"), but rather from the name "Heriso", and thus the name Herschweiler would originally have meant "Heriso's Homestead".According to toponymical research, the "—weiler" villages were founded sometime between 650 and 700.