 With the last count's death in 1444, Gimsbach, like the other two villages now in the municipality of Matzenbach, passed to the new Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.In 1543, Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken transferred lands to his uncle Ruprecht to found his own, new county palatine.Belonging to it were Veldenz on the Moselle, Lauterecken, the "Ämter" of Jettenbach and Reichenbach (with Matzenbach) and later also Lützelstein in Alsace.