Mengerschied is among the oldest places in the district. About 1080, Mengerschied had its first documentary mention as "Mengezerodt". The name changed over the 15th and 16th centuries from "Mengersroit" to "Mengersrade" (1502), "Mengerschitt" (1584) and then "Mengerschied" (1785). The church named in the document was consecrated to the Apostles Philip and James and the holy virgin Saint Walpurga and was under the care of the Ravengiersburg Monastery. It was a parish church with baptismal rights, as witnessed to this day by the 15th-century baptismal font at the graveyard. The church itself became both the Protestants’ and the Catholics’ graveyard church after the Reformation, when the Protestants built their own church in the village. The graveyard church fell into disrepair during the 18th century.