Postal bus service between Montabaur and Welschneudorf by way of Oberelbert was begun on 11 November 1926.
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The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
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Sometime before 1200, in the municipal area (Bann) of the village of Humbach (Montabaur), the Archbishop of Trier owned, among other things, a Wildhube (a fief that required the holder to protect Imperial hunting rights) at Elewartin.
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In 1362 came a documentary mention of Niederelbert (inferiori Elewarten), which suggests that there must have been an Oberelbert by this time, too (Nieder– is German for “nether” or “lower”, while Ober– means “upper”).