Sargenroth - History

History

On 18 May 1276, Sargenroth had its first documentary mention when Pope Innocent V confirmed Tholey Abbey’s holdings. These had already been quite rich, but had been confined to the Abbey’s immediate area, Hermeskeil and Baumholder, but now some outlying holdings came its way, among them Sargenroth. The document mentions “lands in the village of Sargenhrucha”. Further documentary mentions are as follows:

• 27 October 1346 – Sir Friedrich Valysen of Leyen was enfeoffed by Archbishop Baldwin with the tithes from Simmern, including those from Sarchenraid.
• About 1400 – The tithes from Simmern also included Sarchenroth.
• 5 March 1550 – The Archbishop of Mainz had the parish of Sargenrot visited.
• 1600 – The description of the villages under the Ravengiersburg provost’s authority named Sarchert.
• 3 July 1728 – The inspector’s acts named the village Sarchenroth.

Beginning in 1750, the current spelling became the norm in the church books.

The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the court district of the Nunkirch (church) and was thereby under the Ravengiersburg provost’s authority. In 1408, the Ravengiersburg holdings passed along with Sargenroth to the Counts Palatine, and then in 1410 to the newly created Duchy of Simmern, which in 1566 introduced the Reformation. In 1673, the village passed back to Electoral Palatinate. Beginning in 1794, Sargenroth lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.