Many finds in the area of the village meadows show that there were already Celtic settlers here in Hallstatt and La Tène times.

They built not only walls, moats and watchtowers, whose traces can still sometimes still be made out, but also a small fort, whose outer foundations, however, may now only be viewed in reconstruction.

The community's first documentary mention, as Hiensceit, appears in a document uttered by Archbishop of Trier Ludolf (994-1008) about the year 1000.

At the request of Abbess Mathilde zu Essen (974-1011), daughter of Swabian duke Liudolf and granddaughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Swabian duke Hermann I, who himself was Count of the Engersgau and lord of a great area around Montabaur, the Archbishop of Trier Ludolf transferred to St. Florin's Monastery at Koblenz tithing rights to Hana (Höhn), Hiensceit (Hillscheid), Mannechenrot (Mangeroth, now abandoned) and Agerin (Niederähren), and in return exchanged Aschebach (Eschelbach).

(MGV = Männergesangverein, or “men’s singing club”) Bundesstraße 49 linking Koblenz and Montabaur lies 5 km to the south.

At 50°25′27″N 7°43′55″E / 50.42417°N 7.73194°E / 50.42417; 7.73194 is found a 99-m-tall transmitter owned by Deutsche Telekom AG, which bears the nickname Alarmstange (roughly, “signal mast”).