In 1360, Kliding had its first documentary mention as a fief held by the widow of Dietrich, Lord at Ulmen.

Electoral-Trier overlordship ended with the French Revolutionary occupation of the Rhine’s left bank between 1794 and 1796.

Urschmitt and Kliding, which together formed a single municipality, were split into two separate ones in 1848.

[1] The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per pale and chevron, argent and vert counterchanged, in dexter chief an oak sprig bendwise slipped fructed of two and leafed of four of the second, in sinister chief a cross patriarchal of the first, in dexter base a waterwheel spoked of four of the second, in sinister base a horseshoe bendwise, the ends to chief, sable.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Saint Wendelin’s is also noted for its windows.