Berich was a small village about two kilometers southwest of Waldeck Castle on a narrow hill above the Eder. The village was built on the site of the former Berich nunnery, which was dissolved in 1566 after the introduction of the Reformation in Waldeck. The monastery became the property of the Counts of Waldeck and was initially used as a dairy. In 1753 it was converted into a village, where ten colonist families were settled. In the 1895 census the village had 157 inhabitants. It had an area of 582 hectares. In 1898/99 a massive stone bridge was built over the Eder. Just a few years after the bridge was built, planning began for the construction of the Eder Dam. It became clear that the village would have to be abandoned because it would be submerged in the reservoir: the village site, at 232 m above sea level, would be 13 meters below the full water level. In 1905, the village had 26 families with 134 inhabitants who had to leave their old homes. The princely Waldeck domain chamber offered the villagers the opportunity to build a new village on the site of the princely domain of Büllinghausen near Arolsen. Neu-Berich was then built there, today a district of Bad Arolsen. Eight families from Berich and nine families from nearby Bringhausen on the opposite bank of the Eder were settled there. In the autumn of 1913, Berich was deserted. A few weeks later, pioneers from Hannoversch Münden came to Berich and in December they destroyed the houses with artillery guns and explosives.