Mutterschied is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern.
Otto-Schneider-Straße: former school
Simmerner Straße 4: Fourteen Holy Helpers' Catholic Church
Simmern is a town of roughly 7,600 inhabitants (2013) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the district seat of the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, and the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen. In the Rhineland-Palatinate state development plan, it is set out as a middle centre.
Simmern im Hunsrück
Schloss Simmern as depicted by Matthäus Merian in 1648
Remnants of the mediaeval town wall
The New Schloss Simmern, built between 1708 and 1713 as the Palatine Oberamtmann’s seat