 By way of the Rhinegraves and the Counts of Sponheim, the Lords of Sickingen at Castle Ebernburg became the village’s rulers in 1440, ruling for more than 300 years.When the last lord of this line died out in 1768, the now heirless fief passed back to the overlord, the Electorate of the Palatinate.After the Napoleonic Wars had ended and after the decisions had been made at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Norheim became Prussian and was assigned to the "Oberamt" of Kreuznach.