To the north, east and west, the village is framed by mountains that reach 250 to 300 m above sea level, whereas to the south, the valley opens out towards the River Nahe.

From Celtic and Roman times and later, to the Frankish taking of the land, a wealth of archaeological finds has come to light.

The oldest preserved record of Monzingen comes from a directory of holdings kept by Lorsch Abbey (east of Worms), from AD 778.

The settlement lay in a favourable spot up a sheltered side valley, around a crag halfway up a slope that also bore a holy sanctuary, as in now does a church, away from any floodwaters that might come up from the Nahe of the Gaulsbach.

As in the whole Rhenish region, the Thirty Years' War wrought great damage and loss in Monzingen.

After the end of Napoleonic times in the wars of 1813-1815, this administrative zone of Monzingen was assigned in 1816 to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.

In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, the Amtsbürgermeisterei of Monzingen became a Verbandsgemeinde in 1969 but then the following year it was dissolved altogether.

About 1920, almost every Jewish inhabitant had already moved out of Monzingen, leaving only one, Jettchen Ullmann, known as the Ullmanns-Bas – the last part of the nickname is apparently an archaic word for “cousin” – who was born in 1856).

According to the Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny") and Yad Vashem, of all Jews who either were born in Monzingen or lived there for a long time, three were victims of Nazi persecution (birthdates and other information in brackets): Early forms of Monzingen's name such as Monzecha, Munzaher and Monzaha derived from a Frankish settler's name (Munt/Mund) with the suffix —aha or —ach, which meant “(flowing) water”.

However, owing to a formal defect that was detected in the electoral oversight, this election was in fact invalidated and then held again on 25 October 2009.

[8] That vote yielded the following results:[9] Hugo Dämgen was actually the head of the Amt (Amtsbürgermeister) under the old system before 1972, as Monzingen still was a growing city.

It is registered in the cadastral plan as an estate area (Hofraum), which at the time was the customary term for a house with a yard.

It is believed that no new prayer room was ever set up, as it could by then already be foreseen that the shrinking Jewish community would not be able to muster the ten men needed to form a minyan.

In Flurbuch XIV (now kept at the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, stock 441/553; catalogue 730/553), the oldest map of the municipality of Monzingen, from 1830, the graveyard is marked.

In 1938, by which time Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany, the graveyard had to be dissolved and levelled on the National Socialists’ orders.

1856), had admonished a high party functionary about building a Hitler Youth clubhouse on the Jewish graveyard’s lands.

The very elderly woman felt compelled to go on and on until she had made sure that the graveyard would not be passing into the party’s hands, but rather would be bought by a resident as building land for a head saw works.

The sawmill's storage yard, which had been laid out on the graveyard's former grounds, has for some years no longer existed.

The document in question bears witness to a donation of vineyards to Lorsch Abbey, thus showing that the village has a long and successful winegrowing tradition.

At Saint Roch’s Festival at Bingen in 1815, he wrote:Nahe Society is now vaunting a wine that grows in the area, called Monzinger.

A short road, Kreisstraße 97, runs from that same interchange across the railway and the River Nahe to link the village with Landesstraße 232.