Mittelstrimmig 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. Geography Location Mittelstrimmig lies together with the neighbouring municipality of Altstrimmig on a high ridge in the northern Hunsrück roughly 30 km from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Mittelstrimmig is the biggest village in the so-called Strimmiger Berg and, thanks to a great deal of woodlands, is among the Hunsrück's wealthiest municipalities. Land use Outside the built-up lands within the municipality, land use breaks down as follows: Forest: 716 ha Municipal woodlands: 701.7 ha Other woodlands held by official bodies: 0.4 ha Small, private woodlots: 13.6 ha Agriculture: 337 ha Cropland: 211.3 ha Crop-grassland: 12.8 ha Grassland: 102.2 ha Meadow orchard: 0.6 ha Grazing land: 9.6 ha Horticultural land: 0.3 ha Tree nurseries: 0.2 ha The figures are from the Daun Land Survey and Cadastral Office (Vermessungs- und Katasteramt Daun), dated 2 August 2005. History Roman times Along today's Landesstraße 202 between Mittelstrimmig and Blankenrath, remnants of a Roman settlement, or vicus, were found. Later research brought to light that an important Roman highway once led through the area. The local school chronicle has this to say about it: “…it is a fact that in the district called Die Mauer (“The Wall”), the clear remnants of an establishment of great extent, destroyed by violence, can still be made out today...” Middle Ages The first documentary mention of the name Strimmig – shared by Mittelstrimmig, Altstrimmig and the Strimmiger Berg – is to be found in a document from Count Simon I of Sponheim-Kreuznach from the year 1259, in which Heinrich, Lord of Ehrenberg, settled the matter of the inheritance from the County of Sayn with Count Simon with regards to the Vogtei of Strimmig. Mittelstrimmig belonged in the Middle Ages to the “three-lord” courts. In Mittelstrimmig, the three lords were: the Electorate of Trier, Sponheim and Braunshorn (until 1367). In 1437, Johann von Sponheim, the last Count of the ruling house of Sponheim, died. The County passed unpartitioned – as a condominium – to Margrave Bernhard of Baden and Count Friedrich at Veldenz. To this also belonged the Sponheim share in the “three-lord” court, which was administered by either Kastellaun or Trarben. In 1444, after Count Friedrich's death, the County of