 In pronouncements handed down in 1410 and 1552, Horrweiler was counted among the villages that had to bear the cost of maintaining Bingen’s town wall and defending it in wartime, for which the villagers enjoyed special rights in the town of Bingen.Rhenish Hesse was assigned to the French Department of Mont-Tonnerre (Donnersberg) in 1793.Horrweiler passed to the canton of Ober-Ingelheim.