Heinzenbach

Heinzenbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly halfway between Reckershausen and Unzenberg, about 3 km north of Kirchberg and about 6 km west of Simmern.HistoryBearing witness to Heinzenbach’s very early history are a great barrow in District 6 of In der Küch, the municipal forest, and a trove of Roman coins from some time between AD 276 and 282.In 1310, Heinzenbach had its first documentary mention in the Sponheimisches Gefälleregister, a taxation register kept by the County of Sponheim. In the Middle Ages, the village was held by the Ravengiersburg Monastery, but most of the inhabitants were subjects of the Counts of Sponheim. Beginning in 1794, Heinzenbach lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.