the place-name ending "—ingen" points to early frankish settlement. bewingen was first mentioned in a document in 1218 as a holding of the church and monastery of niederehe. from that mention it is known that the brothers theoderich, alexander, and albero, from castle kerpen, established an endowment for the premonstratensian nuns in the years between 1162 and 1175. the next documentary mention came in 1282, when "gerhard vi of blankenheim" acquired the land, as well as steffeln, niederbettingen, and bewingen. in the middle ages, the lords at kasselburg (a castle in pelm) and those at castle gerhardstein (gerolstein) held lands and tithing rights in the village. in the time of french rule, beginning in 1794, bewingen was assigned to the "mairie" ("mayoralty") of rockeskyll, and the village remained within the "bürgermeisterei" (also "mayoralty") of rockeskyll up to prussian times. the formerly self-administering municipality of bewingen was amalgamated with the town of gerolstein in 1969.