Altstrimmig

Altstrimmig is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies together with the neighbouring municipality of Mittelstrimmig on a ridge in the northern Hunsrück, the Strimmiger Berg.HistoryIn 1357, Altstrimmig had its first documentary mention. From 31 May 1358 comes a document with which Archbishop Bohemond II of Trier granted Gerhard von Ehrenberg a fief. The Strimmiger Berg was until 1781 part of the “Three-Lord Territory”. As in the Beltheim court, the landlordship was shared among the Electorate of Trier, the County of Sponheim and the House of Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Metternich). Beginning in 1794, Altstrimmig lay under French rule. Beginning in 1798 Altstrimmig belonged to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Beilstein. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.