The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
The physicists Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Cologne, claim to have violated relativity experimentally by transmitting photons faster than the speed of light.
It is not to be confused with Stahlhofen, another community in the same district, but in the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur.