In 1334, Stipshausen had its first documentary mention in a church document as "Stebeshusen". In the middle of this old document is the granting of an indulgence, which apparently had something to do with the building of the new, but now vanished, Saint Anthony's Chapel. A first documentary mention nevertheless has nothing much to do with a village's actual age. A clearer indication of that is contained in the name itself. The ending "—hausen" (originally "—husen") dates the village's founding to the time about the year 1000 when the Franks were settling the land.