Gimbweiler

Geschichte

Gimbweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies on the Mörschbach in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald in the Hunsrück, on the boundary with the Saarland.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Gimbweiler is the outlying homestead of Heidehof.HistoryThe oldest forms of Gimbweiler’s name are Gumbweiler, Gompwiler and Gympwiler . Gimbweiler may be of Roman origin, as the now vanished hamlet of Frudesweiler may have been, too, but this cannot be proved.Gimbweiler’s history unfolded much like neighbouring Wolfersweiler’s . Gimbweiler always belonged to that village’s high court and parish, while the lords through the Middle Ages were the Bishops of Verdun, the Counts of Veldenz and the Dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.