Mittelreidenbach

Mittelreidenbach is an Ortsgemeinde - a member of the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein - in the district of Birkenfeld in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in southwestern Germany.GeographyLocationThe village lies in the Reidenbach valley southeast of the Nahe River. To the west lies Idar-Oberstein.HistoryThere is already the evidence of the fact that Mittelreidenbach is a very old settlement. The stones with markings, called "Hollen- and Bellenstein" in the ancient times, and the eleven graves of the Huns (burial sites of the Celts) are known to be in the area of the sports fields of Mittelreidenbach.The foundation of the present village of Mittelreidenbach goes back to the Frankish period (800-1000 AD). In the 12th Century, the settlement belonged to the district of Naumburg bei Bärenbach. In this history appears a Ritter, Werner von Reidenbach, in the years between 1282 - 1287, as the resident of Hachenpfuhls (now Hachenfels) near Naumburg. In 1321 the Herren von Reidenbach zu Dune und Stein (Oberstein, now Idar-Oberstein) were given the properties of Weiersbach and Nahbollenbach.