 Gimsbach’s territorial history in French Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Bavarian times was the same as Matzenbach’s.This village in the old French "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Neunkirchen am Potzberg even shared its neighbour's history up to 1968.From 1816 to 1945, Gimsbach was subject to the "Bezirksamt" of Homburg, whereafter the then self-administering municipality was grouped into the Kaiserslautern district after the Second World War.