Mittelstrimmig lies together with the neighbouring municipality of Altstrimmig on a high ridge in the northern Hunsrück roughly 30 km from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Mittelstrimmig is the biggest village in the so-called Strimmiger Berg and, thanks to a great deal of woodlands, is among the Hunsrück's wealthiest municipalities.

The local school chronicle has this to say about it: “…it is a fact that in the district called Die Mauer (“The Wall”), the clear remnants of an establishment of great extent, destroyed by violence, can still be made out today...” The first documentary mention of the name Strimmig – shared by Mittelstrimmig, Altstrimmig and the Strimmiger Berg – is to be found in a document from Count Simon I of Sponheim-Kreuznach from the year 1259, in which Heinrich, Lord of Ehrenberg, settled the matter of the inheritance from the County of Sayn with Count Simon with regards to the Vogtei of Strimmig.

The problem of those with no fixed address, without social safeguards or possibility of taking care of their own livelihoods also affected the villages on the Strimmiger Berg.

This led in the villages on the Strimmiger Berg to the establishment of what were called Ortsteile Klein-Frankreich (roughly “Little France Neighbourhoods”).

On 26 May 1852, 151 persons (56 of whom were 14 or younger) left Mittelstrimmig for New York on the U.S. ship Henry Clay, landing there on 13 June of the same year.

They made their new homes in Michigan and Wisconsin in, among other places, Green Bay, Washington County, Sheboygan, Milwaukee, Germantown, Farmington, Cedarburg and Appleton.

The parts of South America that some went to were the areas around Porto Alegre, Santa Cruz do Sul and San José.

These communities can still be found today in Novo Hamburgo (called Neu Hamburg in German), São Leopoldo and Rio Grande.

With the German soldiers gone, the villages on the Strimmiger Berg were occupied by the Americans, who were billeted in barns, stables, barrooms at inns and schools.

Once Germany had been divided into occupation zones by the victorious powers, the Americans withdrew and the Rhineland, and along with it the Strimmiger Berg, once again fell under French rule.

In the early 1920s, many young men left the Strimmiger Berg to go to Cologne, where money could be earned in factories and coalpits.

Already by 26 or 27 August, 9 men from Mittelstrimmig had to man the anti-aircraft gun battery (Flugabwehrstelle, or FLUWA) in the cadastral area known as Galgenflur.

Up to 1942, roughly 75 men from Mittelstrimmig were called into the forces, 28 of whom fell in the war (in, among other places, Stalingrad); a further 17 are missing in action to this day.

When the war reached Koblenz in 1943, people fled, seeking shelter in slate caves and shacks.

However, after state administrative reform, it became part of the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Zell in the Cochem-Zell district.

[4] The German blazon reads: Das Wappen von Mittelstrimmig ist schräg geteilt.

Part of the film Der Schinderhannes – the title character's homecoming with his girlfriend Julchen Blasius to his father's house – was made here.

Another mill in the municipality is the one mentioned above in connection with the chapel with the ridge turret, the Hannosiusmühle, which nowadays houses a clinic that treats addictions.

In 1951, however, sacrifices by the parish made it possible for the church to obtain four new steel bells, listed in the table at right.

The Dietzen-Heiligenhäuschen between Mittelstrimmig and Liesenich was built in 1700 by the Schöffe (roughly “lay jurist”) Johann Dietzen.