sentences:  Further mentions of the name rendered it Asbach (about 1250), Oberasbach (1377) or Haspach (1594).The current form, Aschbach, only appeared in the 19th century.The former village of Niederaschbach, which was always named in old documents as one of the Eßweiler Tal villages, lay northwest of today's village of Aschbach, which itself was once known as Oberaschbach ("Ober—" and "Nieder—" are cognate with English “over” and “nether”, and mean “upper” and “lower”, respectively).