sentences:  In the beginning, the village lay on the cadastral area now called “Kirchwiese”, where once wall remnants were also found.In 1296, Eßweiler had its thus far earliest known documentary mention in a document from the Counts of Zweibrücken, which mentions the village of "Esewilr".The area had been, however, settled earlier than that, as the Stone Age to Roman times section, above, details.