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Hecken
Hecken 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'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück some 3 km south of the town of Kirchberg, on the edge of the Kyrbach valley. The name Hecken derives from the Old High German word ''hag'', meaning a hedged field or wood. Hecken's area is 3.89 km² and its elevation ranges from roughly 390 to 420 m above sea level. Roughly half the municipal area is wooded. History In 1291, Hecken had its first documentary mention when Count Johan von Sponheim gave his ''Burgmann'' from Kastellaun, Herrmann von Kestilun, leave to let his wife Sophia live at the estate in Hecken should anything untoward befall him. A knightly family named itself after the village. The family's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindenschied
Lindenschied 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'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück on a ridge. West of the village flows the Kyrbach and to the east lies Dickenschied, through which runs ''Bundesstraße'' 421. Lindenschied lies roughly 5 km south of Kirchberg, 12 km southwest of Simmern and 9 km southeast of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The municipal area measures 317 ha, of which 66 ha is wooded. History In 1345, Lindenschied, which was then under the High Court of Rhaunen, had its first documentary mention. The document itself stated Lindenschied's, and several other villages’, legal status, which at this time was disputed, particularly as to these villages’ rights and boundaries, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Womrath
Womrath is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Kirchberg (Verbandsgemeinde), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsrück, like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies on a ridge in the Hunsrück, roughly 4 km southeast of Kirchberg and 12 km east of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Also belonging to the village is an outlying Hamlet (place), hamlet called Wallenbrück, in the Simmerbach valley. History Womrath has been settled since the Stone Age, as witnessed by Archaeology, archaeological finds made within municipal limits. From the times of the Celts, the Treveri (a people of mixed Celts, Celtic and Germanic peoples, Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, ''History of Trier, Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillendorf
Dillendorf is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Kirchberg (Verbandsgemeinde), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsrück, like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the Kyrbach valley at a mean elevation of 340 m above sea level. The historic ''Via Ausonia'' (or ''Ausoniusstraße'' in German language, German) runs through Dillendorf. Constituent communities Dillendorf’s ''Ortsteile'' are the outlying village of Liederbach and the main village, also called Dillendorf. History There are more than 80 Tumulus, barrows along the ''Via Ausonia'', and there have been quite a few Archaeology, archaeological finds from La Tène culture, Late La Tène times along with gold coins lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dill, Germany
Dill 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'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town, and it is home to a castle ruin that bears the same name. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück in the Dillerbach valley, which cuts some 30 m into the Hunsrück plateau as it flows along a bow round a mountain spur upon which sits the castle. Parts of the village also stretch across the spur's south slope and the saddle, which links the spur to the plateau to the east. Two kilometres to the village's east, the Sohrbach empties into the Kyrbach. Through the north of the municipal area runs the old Roman road, the so-called ''Via Ausonia'' (or ''Ausoniusstraße'' in German). History In Reichenbach Priory's book of donated holdings is an entry from 1090 naming somebody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickenschied
Dickenschied 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'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies on a ridge in the Hunsrück five kilometres south of Kirchberg. To the east lies the Simmerbach valley, to the west lies the Kyrbach valley and to the south looms a hill region called the Lützelsoon. History Prehistory and early history The Dickenschied area was settled as early as the New Stone Age, as witnessed by finds in the neighbouring municipalities of Woppenroth and Gemünden. After the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, the Hunsrück's, and thereby also Dickenschied's, prehistory and early history was marked by the Celts (600-50 BC), the Romans (50 BC-AD 300) and the Franks (300-1000). Within Dickenschied's municipal limits, Celtic buryin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sohrschied
Sohrschied 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'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück on the edge of the Kyrbach valley on both sides of the Aubach. Sohrschied lies roughly 6 km southwest of Kirchberg and 7 km southeast of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. History Early habitation is witnessed by several archaeological finds. A quern-stone from the Iron Age was found near the Sohrbach bridge west of ''Kreisstraße'' (District Road) 3. There is an early Roman barrow southwest of the village in the cadastral area known as “Im Haag”. This yielded grave goods that are now in the Bonn Museum. In two other cadastral areas, “Auf Weiler” and “Höll”, remnants of Roman walls have been unearthed. In 1428 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsrück
Kirchberg, the ''Stadt auf dem Berg'' (“Town on the Mountain”), called ''Kerbrich'' in Moselle Franconian, is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', to which it also belongs. Geography Location The town lies in the Hunsrück, 10 km west of the district seat of Simmern and 12 km east of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Kirchberg's skyline, with its three towers – two churchtowers and one watertower – can be seen from a long way off, for they stand on raised land that gives the town its nickname “Town on the Mountain”. From the churchtower at Saint Michael's, the following places can be seen: to the southeast, the Soonwald (a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück) with the Koppenstein castle ruin; to the south, the Lützelsoon (a little outlier of the Soonwald); to the southwest, the Idarkopf and the Erbeskopf (mountains, the latter of which, at 816 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg (Verbandsgemeinde)
Kirchberg is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Rhein-Hunsrück district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... Its seat is in Kirchberg. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirchberg consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate {{RheinHunsrück-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
