Leuterod is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
Rhineland- ...
'' – in the
Westerwaldkreis
The Westerwaldkreis ("District of Westerwald") is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Altenkirchen, Lahn-Dill, Limburg-Weilburg, Rhein-Lahn, the district-free ...
in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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.
Geography
Neighbouring municipalities
Leuterod's immediate neighbours are
Moschheim
Moschheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The community lies north of Montabaur on the ''Kannenbäckerstraße'' (“Jug Bakers’ Ro ...
in the southeast,
Ötzingen
Ötzingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The community lies at the foot of the Malberg, a wooded volcanic cone found within the n ...
in the northeast,
Siershahn
Siershahn is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
History
Clay finds from La Tène times have been unearthed here. In 1211, Siershahn had its first do ...
in the west and
Wirges
Wirges () is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Wirges lies in a high hollow in the further Westerwald between Köppel and Malberg, roughly 5 km northwest of Montabaur and 20 km northeast of Kobl ...
in the southwest.
Location
Together with the first two municipalities named above, Leuterod borders in the east on the Malberg, whose elevation of 422 m above
sea level
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makes it the most notable feature on the landscape north of Montabaur. The river Aubach divides the municipality into two zones (''Bereiche'' in
German
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): the ''Unterdorf'' (“Lower Village”) and the ''Insel'' (“Island”). The municipality belongs to the Wirges Verbandsgemeinde (the municipal association of Wirges).
Constituent municipalities
Leuterod's ''
Ortsteil
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e'' are Leuterod and Hosten.
History
Leuterod's history reaches very far back. Finds on the Malberg confirm the existence of a
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
hill fort
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(a place of worship) built there sometime between 800 and 600 BC.
In 1362, Leuterod had its first documentary mention as ''Wendel de lutereide''. Somewhat earlier, in 1311, the outlying centre of Hosten had been mentioned as ''Hovesteden''. Leuterod and Hosten lay at this time in the parish of Montabaur, whereby the Lords of St. Florin in Koblenz held the
tithing
A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing's leader or s ...
rights.
In 1563, 12 “hearths” (''Feuerstätten'', that is to say, families) were counted in Leuterod. One hundred and twenty years later, owing to the frightful aftermath of the
Thirty Years' War
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, there was only one left. According to sagas, the municipality was utterly destroyed in this time and then built once more on a different spot. The ''Altendorfer Weg'', according to the saga, is supposedly the road to the village's former site.
Until 1803, Leuterod belonged to the
Electorate of Trier
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, when it passed to the Duchy of Nassau, and thereby also to
Prussia
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in 1866.
Moreover, worth mentioning is that already by 1563, an hereditary mill (
gristmill
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) was mentioned in the municipality.
Politics
The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (''Bürgermeister''), who were elected in a
majority vote
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Autobahn
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interchanges
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Transport
* Interchange (road), a collection of ramps, exits, and entrances between two or more highways
* Interchange (freight rail), the transfer of freight cars between railroad companies
* Interchange station, a rai ...
are ''
Mogendorf
Mogendorf is a municipality in Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europ ...
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
–
Frankfurt
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), both 5 km away each. The nearest
InterCityExpress
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stop is the
railway station
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*Förderverein der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr (Volunteer Fire Brigade Promotional Club)
*Männergesangverein Eintracht (men's singing club, “Harmony”)
* Sportverein
*
Theater
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verein
*Katholische Frauengemeinschaft (
Catholic
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women's community)
*Kirchenchor St. Leonhard (church
choir
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