Until Napoleonic times, the village of Freckenfeld was part of the Lordship of Guttenberg, Holy Roman Empire. During the Thirty Years War [1618 - 1648], Freckenfeld was occupied multiple times by the troops of the Catholic League and those of the Bavarian Imperial army. These respective armies robbed, pillaged, brandished fire and murdered. Many of the residents fled. Besides this, the Black Death was then rampant. After the devastating war, some of those who had fled, returned, but French religious refugees and Swiss people came also. In 1685 the French King Louis XIV took over the sovereignty of the Lordship of Guttenberg. Freckenfeld belonged to the French subprefecture of Wissembourg, in the region of Alsace. The sovereignty of the French crown remained until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, when the Lordship of Guttenberg was abolished and Freckenfeld and other Gutenburg villages were incorporated into the French Republic, and then into the Napoleonic Empire. In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, these villages were annexed to Austria, and in 1816 in an exchange with Tyrol, they became Bavarian. (abstracted from The Freckenfeld Local Heritage Book: Families from Freckenfeld between the Thirty Years’ War (1618 - 1648) and 1900.by Werner Esser & Ute Keppel], Its a wonder that so many old timber houses still stand. That style is usually 1500-1600s