Old winegrowers' houses and pretty half-timbered houses in winding alleyways make the wine village of Osann-Monzel, situated in a high valley 80 m above the Moselle, a village worth living in on the Middle Moselle. The area of Osann-Monzel was probably first settled during Roman times, after Julius Caesar (100 BC to 44 BC) incorporated the Eifel and Moselle into the Roman Empire. Ruins were found in the Monzel district, which were interpreted as a Roman villa rustica, i.e. a single farmstead. After the end of Roman rule, the municipal area belonged to the Frankish Empire from 510 and, after its division, to Lorraine from the middle of the 9th century. Lorraine, for its part, changed its affiliation several times between the East Frankish and West Frankish empires. Finally, from 925, the municipal area belonged to the western border region of Germany, albeit with interruptions.
Historical town on the Moselle
There are no known direct documentary references from this period, but it is assumed that both Osann and Monzel were founded in the 7th or 8th century. What is certain is that these villages have existed since at least 950. This is known from a list of possessions of the Trier Abbey of St. Martin at this time, in which "osanna" and "muncele villam" are mentioned. This first documentary mention dates back to the year 1008. Archbishop Balduin of Trier gave Monzel and Osann as a fief to the Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1323. However, Himmerod Abbey also remained an important landlord in Monzel. in 1412, Philipp von Nassau-Saarbrücken gave Osann and Monzel to the Counts of Daun und zu Bruch as an after-fief. Osann and Monzel then came to the Counts of Manderscheid as a marriage estate. From 1794, the two villages were under French rule, and in 1815 they were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, they have been part of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. On June 7, 1969, the municipalities of Osann and Monzel were dissolved and the new municipality of Osann-Monzel was formed from the dissolved municipalities.
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The Eifel Pilgrims' Cycle Route leads from Himmerod via Klausen through Osann-Monzel to the Moselle.
