sentences:  There have been various attempts to interpret the name.Supposedly, the village was founded on one of the Remigiusberg monks’ "Hufen", a "Hufe" or "Hube" being an area of land comparable to an oxgang, or a rural, settled place made up of worked cropland together with the attendant farmstead.The name "Hüffweiler" has also come up here and there, but only in 18th century documents, never in any very old ones.