Simmern

Simmern was a lordship in the Hunsrück, on the road from Bingen to Trier. In 1337 the raugraves held it as a fief of the Archbishop of Trier.

The Wittelsbach counts palatine acquired Simmern, and the partition of 1410 made it the residence of Palatinate-Simmern. Its line inherited the Electoral Palatinate in 1559. French troops burned the town in 1689, sparing little beyond Saint Stephen's church and a few towers. Revolutionary France annexed it in the 1790s, and the Congress of Vienna assigned it to Prussia in 1815.