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Wolfenhausen (Weilmünster)
Wolfenhausen is a village (Village, ''Ortsteil'') of the municipality of Weilmünster in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in central Hesse. It has around 1000 inhabitants (2021). Geography Wolfenhausen is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park, at an altitude of 300 metres above sea level, approx. seven kilometres south-west of the core municipality of Weilmünster. The highest elevation in the district is the ''Rote Küppel'' at 378 metres. The Wolfenhauserbach stream flows through the village. It rises in the Laubus forest district, flows down the valley through the Laubus valley and is called Laubusbach below the village. The district area is 5.54 square kilometres, of which 1.96 square kilometres are forest. Neighbouring villages are Münster (Selters), Münster (to the west), Langhecke (to the north-west), Laubuseschbach (to the north-east) and Haintchen (to the south). History The village was first mentioned in a document from 1194 as belonging to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
