 In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Gimsbach passed along with its neighbours Matzenbach and Bettenhausen to the Kusel district on 7 June 1969, and then on 20 March 1971, the "Ortsgemeinde" of Matzenbach was founded, comprising not only Matzenbach itself, but also Eisenbach and Gimsbach.The Electorate of the Palatinate geographer and historian Johann Goswin Widder wrote the following in 1788