In 1291, Hecken had its first documentary mention when Count Johan von Sponheim gave his Burgmann from Kastellaun, Herrmann von Kestilun, leave to let his wife Sophia live at the estate in Hecken should anything untoward befall him.

A knightly family named itself after the village.
The family's first representative, Heinrich von Hecken, belonged in 1290 to the Court of Schöffen (roughly “lay jurists”) at Kirchberg.
In Hecken itself, the Counts had an estate made up of three houses and as many barns with the attendant estate lands.

The oldest written text that can be found in the municipality of Hecken comes from the year 1737 and is from the Princely Margravial Badish Court Councilman and Kirchberg Oberamtmann Seitz:
Erstens soll ein neu angehender Untertan oder Bürger bei seinem Antritt in die Gemeinde, bevor er das Gemeinsrecht erlangt hat, schuldig und gehalten sein, einen ledernen Feuereimer zu stellen, widrigenfalls und in solange derselbe in die Gemeinde nicht an– und aufgenommen werden soll, bis er dieses befolgt und solchen Feuereimer gestellt haben wird.

It is hardly something that sheds a great deal of light on historical developments in the 18th century, although it may offer a window on civic duties as they were defined in the Rhineland in those days.
In English, this reads:
“First, a newly prospective subject or townsman, upon coming into the municipality, before he has been granted commoner’s rights, should be bound and obliged to provide a leather fire pail, failing which he should not be accepted and admitted, until he abides by this and has provided such a fire pail.”

Beginning in 1794, Hecken lay under French rule.
In 1815 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.

Among Hecken's distinctions are some 100 barrows scattered throughout the Bannholz (a wood whose function is to shield against adverse weather).
It is the biggest barrow field in the middle Hunsrück.
During planning work in the course of land consolidation in 1953, a neck ring, among other things, was found.
This now stands as a charge in the municipality's coat of arms
In 1291, Hecken had its first documentary mention when Count Johan von Sponheim gave his Burgmann from Kastellaun, Herrmann von Kestilun, leave to let his wife Sophia live at the estate in Hecken should anything untoward befall him.
A knightly family named itself after the village. The family's first representative, Heinrich von Hecken, belonged in 1290 to the Court of Schöffen (roughly “lay jurists”) at Kirchberg. In Hecken itself, the Counts had an estate made up of three houses and as many barns with the attendant estate lands.
The oldest written text that can be found in the municipality of Hecken comes from the year 1737 and is from the Princely Margravial Badish Court Councilman and Kirchberg Oberamtmann Seitz:
Erstens soll ein neu angehender Untertan oder Bürger bei seinem Antritt in die Gemeinde, bevor er das Gemeinsrecht erlangt hat, schuldig und gehalten sein, einen ledernen Feuereimer zu stellen, widrigenfalls und in solange derselbe in die Gemeinde nicht an– und aufgenommen werden soll, bis er dieses befolgt und solchen Feuereimer gestellt haben wird.
It is hardly something that sheds a great deal of light on historical developments in the 18th century, although it may offer a window on civic duties as they were defined in the Rhineland in those days. In English, this reads:
“First, a newly prospective subject or townsman, upon coming into the municipality, before he has been granted commoner’s rights, should be bound and obliged to provide a leather fire pail, failing which he should not be accepted and admitted, until he abides by this and has provided such a fire pail.”
Beginning in 1794, Hecken lay under French rule. In 1815 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.
Among Hecken's distinctions are some 100 barrows scattered throughout the Bannholz (a wood whose function is to shield against adverse weather). It is the biggest barrow field in the middle Hunsrück. During planning work in the course of land consolidation in 1953, a neck ring, among other things, was found. This now stands as a charge in the municipality's coat of arms
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