Horn, Germany

Horn
Horn
Location of Horn within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°2′48″N 7°32′32″E / 50.04667°N 7.54222°E / 50.04667; 7.54222Coordinates: 50°2′48″N 7°32′32″E / 50.04667°N 7.54222°E / 50.04667; 7.54222
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.	Simmern
Government
• Mayor	Volker Härter
Area
• Total	6.86 km2 (2.65 sq mi)
Elevation	440 m (1,440 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	334
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55469
Dialling codes	06766
Vehicle registration	SIM

Horn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 7 km eastsoutheast of Kastellaun and 6 km north of Simmern.

Bearing witness to early human habitation in the Horn area are Roman and Neolithic archaeological finds. There is also a mediaeval motte-and-bailey castle.

In the 12th century, Horn had its first documentary mention in connection with the noble family that bore the same name, but it seems that the actual “first mention” in 1135 is a falsified document. Nevertheless, a genuine document from 1166 has the same contents and names the same persons, thus confirming the 12th century, at least, as the earliest time when the village is known to have existed.

Together with Laubach and Bubach, Horn belonged at this time to the Imperially Immediate Estate (Reichsgut). Landholdings seem to have been held by a noble family von Horn. It could be that this family’s noble seat was at the castle, the Horner Burg. The complex’s remnants can be found west of the village. In shape it was a special form of motte-and-bailey. In 1567, Johann von Koppenstein sold Meinhard von Schöneberg the remnants.