Count Palatine Rudolf I (1294–1319), who had given his bride as a wedding present 10,000 Marks at Castle Fürstenberg and Castle Stahlberg near Steeg (today an outlying centre of Bacharach), Kaub and a few other Palatine holdings, ended up at odds with the Count of Kessel over the holdings on the Middle Rhine and in the Hunsrück.
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This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond and Venlo.
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The tithing district between this stone road and the Simmerbach may have been an old holding of the Lords of Wahlbach, who were related to the Lords of Braunshorn and the Lords of Dick near Grevenbroich, who founded the Cistercian convent of Kumbd.
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It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.
In the 17th century, Altweidelbach was united with Mörschbach, Schnorbach and Wahlbach into a single Schultheißerei.
The self-administering Inngericht of Mutterschied formed a Schultheißerei with the municipalities of Mörschbach, Schnorbach and Wahlbach.