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3 unusual facts about Westerwald


DB Class 82

The 82s could also be seen on normal railway duties on the steep inclines of the Westerwald and in the Black Forest on the Murg Valley Railway.

Elkenroth

Elkenroth is a municipality that lies on the boundary of the Westerwald region in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Westerwald-class transport ship

The Westerwald class transport ships are used by the German Navy to carry ammunition and other matériel.


Bannberscheid

The community lies north of Montabaur some 260 m in elevation in meadowland with a gradually climbing slope, within the low mountain landscape of the Westerwald, which is framed by the high Westerwald and the Montabaur Heights (Montabaurer Höhenzug).

Borod

The Bundesstraße joins the community with the middle centres of Hachenburg (10 km) and Altenkirchen (6 km).

Clemens Wilmenrod

His pseudonym was derived from the municipality Willmenrod in the Westerwald region, where he was born as Karl Clemens Hahn.

Cölbe

Newer efforts delving into this question, however, have yielded different results, putting the EU's centre point at Kleinmaischeid in the Westerwald.

Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg

## married on 29 May 1727 at Philippsruhe Castle in Hanau-Kesselstadt to Duke John William III of Saxe-Eisenach (born: 17 October 1666 in Friedewald; died: 14 January 1729 in Eisenach), son of the Duke John George I of Saxe-Eisenach (1634–1686) and his wife Countess Johanetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1626–1701)

Dieter Rübsaamen

Born in Wiesbaden in 1937, raised in Maxsain (Westerwald); law studies; has worked as an artist since 1957, autodidact.

Dreifelden

Dreifelden is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which joins the community to the middle centres of Hachenburg (11 km) and Altenkirchen (26 km).

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch/Westerwald; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld/Westerwald; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

Nassau-Beilstein, which included the Lordships of Westerwald, Burbach and Hickengrund.

Hattert

Hattert lies between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen, on the so-called Altenkirchen Plateau (Altenkirchener Hochebene) in the “Further” Westerwald (Vorderwesterwald).

On 1 April 1885, the Altenkirchen-Hachenburg stretch of railway, the so-called Oberwesterwaldbahn, was opened with a station at Hattert, whose building time can nevertheless no longer be exactly dated.

Hermine Körner

The widowed mother moved with her five children from Berlin to her parents' house in Altenkirchen (Westerwald), where Körner spent her childhood.

John, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

: married secondly 29 May 1727 Philippsruhe Castle with Duke John William of Saxe-Eisenach (born 17 October 1666 in Friedewald; died 14 January 1729 in Eisenach) , son of Duke John George I of Saxe-Eisenach (1634-1686) and his wife Countess Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1626-1701)

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.

Kroppach

The community lies between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen and is described as the gateway to the Kroppach Switzerland nature and landscape conservation area.

Ländches Railway

In the 1970s, an MU pair travelled a route from Au on the Sieg (in Windeck) to Mainz on the Ländchesbahn, connecting the Westerwald with the capital cities of Wiesbaden and Mainz.

Linden, Westerwaldkreis

Linden is connected to the national highway network by Bundesstraße 8, which links the community to the middle centres of Hachenburg (10 km) and Altenkirchen (6 km).

Maroth

Maroth lies 6 km from Herschbach and 7 km from Selters (Westerwald) on the Grenzbach downstream from the Waldsee (lake).

Marzhausen

The community, first documented in 1346, lies between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen on the edge of the Kroppach Switzerland (Kroppacher Schweiz) and is characterized by agriculture.

Mittelndorf

A similar thing in Europe could be found, for example, in the stations of Kloster Marienthal (Engers-Au line, Germany); Pertosa, in southern Italy; or Corrour, in Scotland.

Mudenbach

Mudenbach is linked to the long-distance transport network by Landesstraße 265 leading to Bundesstraße 8, which links the community to the middle centres of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen.

Nordhofen

The recognized tourist community of Nordhofen lies on the abandoned stretch of the Westerwaldbahn (railway) between Siershahn and Altenkirchen in the heart of a mountainous landscape wooded with beeches and spruces.

Robert Walter Richard Ernst von Görschen

The “Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission” initially deported them into the unoccupied area around Wuppertal-Elberfeld and were placed, several days later in Königswinter and Altenkirchen /Westerwald.

Seck

Count Gebhard of the Niederlahngau (832–879) was the first known lord of that holding around Seck in the Middle Westerwald, from which he split the western part to endow his monastery at Gemünden.

The two Westerwald districts (Oberwesterwaldkreis and Unterwesterwaldkreis) were dissolved and merged into the Westerwaldkreis with its seat in Montabaur.

Sporkenburg

The ruins of the spur castle lie within the parish of the village of Eitelborn in the Westerwald hills above the L 329 between Bad Ems and Arzbach.

Steinebach an der Wied

Steinebach an der Wied is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which also links the community with the middle centres of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen.

Süderbergland

Es reicht vom Osten des historischen Siegerlandes im Westen bis weit nach Hessen ins Upland und ins Hessische Hinterland, ein Südwestausläufer zur Kalteiche berührt an der Nahtstelle der drei beteiligten Bundesländer gar fast den Westerwald.

Wiesen

Wiesensee, an artificial lake in the Westerwald mountain range of Germany

Wirscheid

The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Altenkirchen in the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region known for its ceramics industry).


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