Niederöfflingen's history reaches all the way back to 785 when Charlemagne donated the villa … Officinus (Niederöfflingen) to the Abbey of Echternach.Goldenes Buch der Abtei Echternach, Gotha, fol.48v-50 As early as 1179, the Abbey of Echternach forsook its holding of Niederöfflingen in Archbishop of Trier Arnold's favour,Goldenes Buch der Abtei Echternach, Gotha, fol.102v und 103 thus making it an Electoral-Trier holding. Niederöfflingen was assigned to the Amt of Manderscheid and was part of the high court of Obermanderscheid.Staatsarchiv Luxemburg nach Archiv Gotha und LHA Koblenz, Abt.1C, Nr.4207
