The place was first mentioned in documents in 1363. The village Linden belonged from the early 16th to the end of the 18th century to the so-called Grand Court of the rule
Landstuhl, which was owned by the barons of
Sickingen the line to Hohenburg. In 1794, the
left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the
First Coalition War. From 1798 to 1814 Linden belonged to the canton
Landstuhl in the
department Donnersberg. Due to the agreements made at the
Congress of Vienna, the area first came to
Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the
Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of the
Treaty of Munich. Under the Bavarian administration Linden belonged from 1817 to the Landkommissariat
Homburg in the
Rhine district, from 1862 to the district office Homburg, moved in 1929 to the district office
Kaiserslautern and belongs since 1939 to the district of Kaiserslautern. After the
Second World War, the community Linden within the
French occupation zone was part of the administrative district Pfalz in the then newly formed state
Rhineland-Palatinate.
Population growth The development of the population of Linden, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses: ==References==