Simplify the following text for a Grade 3 native English-speaking person.
Original: Cochem is the seat of and the biggest place in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . With just under 5,000 inhabitants , Cochem falls just behind Kusel , in the like-named district , as Germany 's second smallest district seat .
Simplified: Cochem is a city in Germany .