However, for want of any archaeological investigation, it is uncertain from what time they date, but the grave robberies and Court Counsellor Comes’s (1774-1856) resulting collection in Cochem have yielded some idea of the time.
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It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
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In the document containing the first documentary mention, Justina, the knight Siegfried’s noble wife, bequeathed three estates at Uersfeld, Wollmerath and Princka, which she had inherited from her rich father Alberto, to Springiersbach Abbey, receiving in consideration thereof eight Fuder of wine each year (a Fuder was somewhere between 800 and 1 000 L).
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In the New Stone Age (3000 to 2000 BC), the Uersfeld-Kelberg area was home to hunter-gatherers, as witnessed by finds of flint blades and stone hatchets.