Nievern

The area of the modern municipality was incorporated into the Roman Empire by the first century AD and protected by the fortified frontier of the limes, which ran across the Westerwald and Taunus mountains and crossed the Lahn river, the boundary between those, just 5 km to the east in the modern town centre of Bad Ems.

Nievern was first mentioned 1275 AD, although settlement has been suggested from around 900. It was owned by the family of the Von der Leyen since 1629 and then by the Duchy of Nassau since 1806.

During the Second World War, the nearby ironwork Nieverner Hütte, located on an island in the river, served as a production facility for munitions. Bombing raids on the factory and the nearby strategically important cities of Koblenz, Lahnstein and Nassau caused minor destruction and casualties due to accidental collateral damages in the village. Shortly before the municipality was liberated by the U.S. Army on 25 March 1945, the Wehrmacht destroyed both the rail bridge connecting the Lahntalbahn to the ironwork and the first road bridge connecting Nievern with Fachbach dating from 1928. The latter was rebuilt shortly after the war.^[3]

• Marcellus de Niveriis, O.F.M. (died between 1460 and 1462). He was a Franciscan friar and priest, became a swindler and adventurer and then became the 26th Bishop of Skálholt in Iceland. He never went to Iceland. He stayed in Denmark and became the Chancellor as well as the Royal Councilor under King Christian I of Denmark and Norway. He tried to get himself promoted to the Archbishop of Nidaros in Norway but lost to Heinrich Kalteisen, O.P., a Dominican who happened to be from nearby Koblenz.