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3 unusual facts about Westerburg


Louis, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg

By marrying Amelia, he had expanded his territory with her inheritance, the imperial county of Rixingen.

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg (30 June 1604 in Schadeck, today part of Runkel – 13 August 1667 at Wiesenburg Castle), was a Countess of Leiningen and regent of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.

She married on 10 August 1622 at Butzbach to Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Homburg.


Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Frederick I married on 10 August 1622 in Butzbach with Margaret Elisabeth (1604–1667), daughter of Count Christoph of Leiningen-Westerburg.

Guckheim

About 750 m from Guckheim, an 11-km-long, popular hiking trail leads from the direction of Wallmerod to the former railway area in Westerburg.

Höhn

Those inhabitants who work somewhere outside Höhn’s many businesses mostly earn their livelihoods in the Westerburg-Bad Marienberg-Rennerod area.

Kaden

Through the buslines of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, the Westerburg-Limburg-Frankfurt and Westerburg-Altenkirchen-Cologne railway lines and the InterCityExpress stop in Montabaur, Kaden is linked to the long-distance transport network.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

In addition, the following mediatised areas were added under his sovereignty: the Herrlichkeit Westerburg, the Herrlichkeit Schadeck, and that part of the county Wied-Runkel that lay on the right bank of the river Lahn.


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