In the 12th century, Horrweiler was Salian, and then passed into Electorate of the Palatinate ownership and was annexed to the Amt of Stromberg as a subfief, with which it remained until the French Revolution.

The tithes and patronage rights over the church were originally held by the Counts of Leiningen, who further conferred them upon members of the lower nobility.

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.

Under the terms of the Congress of Vienna, the area passed in 1816 to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and came to be known as Rheinhessen (Rhenish Hesse) to distinguish it from the state’s other regions, but also because it had its own special legal status, for example because of the lingering effects of the French Code civil.

An important historical relic, besides the remnants of the old wall complexes built of elms, is the formerly fortified church, a Late Gothic hall structure with a quire enclosed on three sides and a ring of walls with what is perhaps also a Late Gothic, but Baroque-modified gatetower, which als serves as a belltower.