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Gödenroth
Gödenroth is an – a municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück. Constituent communities Some 150 m from Gödenroth going towards Hollnich is a two-house hamlet called “der Kleinbergerhof”. It is home to two families and is a constituent part of Gödenroth. History The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the County of Sponheim. The family Boos von Waldeck and the Counts of Katzenelnbogen drew income from the village. Beginning in 1794, Gödenroth lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Religion Gödenroth has an Evangelical church with a congregation of some 339. Togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braunshorn
Braunshorn is an – a municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück some 18 km west of Oberwesel and one kilometre east of Gödenroth. Constituent communities The municipality's namesake is the village of Braunshorn, one of three ''Ortsteile'' in the municipality. The two others are Dudenroth and Ebschied. History Braunshorn's and Dudenroth's founders were the Lords of Braunshorn, about 1090, one of whose lordly seats was the motte-and-bailey Castle Dudenroth, which can be regarded as the Hunsrück's oldest defensive complex. Indeed, in both places, remnants of such mediaeval castles can be found. In 1098 came Castle Dudenroth's first documentary mention; at this time it belonged to Gandolf von Braunshorn. The first church was me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastellaun
Kastellaun () is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality. Geography Location The town lies in the eastern Hunsrück roughly equidistant from the Moselle, the Rhine and the Nahe. The town centre lies between a depression in the north and the plateau of the Hunsrück, over which runs ''Bundesstraße'' 327, the so-called ''Hunsrückhöhenstraße'' (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). Climate Yearly precipitation in Kastellaun amounts to 755 mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 53% of the German Weather Service's weather stations, lower figures recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.4 times what it is in April. Precipitation varies only sli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beltheim
Beltheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde (Germany), Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Kastellaun (Verbandsgemeinde), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the Kastellaun, like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück. The municipality's main centre, also called Beltheim, is home to just under half its inhabitants and lies on a hilltop some 2 km north of the ''Hunsrückhöhenstraße'' (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). Constituent communities Beltheim’s ''Ortsteile'', besides the main, namesake centre, are Frankweiler, Heyweiler, Mannebach, Schnellbach and Sevenich. History In 893, Beltheim had its first documentary mentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis is a district () in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell. History The district was created in 1969, when the districts of St. Goar and Simmern were merged. In 2014 it was expanded with the municipalities Lahr, Mörsdorf and Zilshausen, previously part of Cochem-Zell. Geography The name of the district already mentions the two main geographic features of the district - the river Rhine which forms the boundary to the north-east and the hills of the Hunsrück cover most of the area of the district. The Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is located in the district. Partnerships In 1962, Simmern began a friendship pact with the French region Bourgogne, which was continued after the merging with the St. Goar. In 1985 a partnership was started with the district Nyaruguru (at that time called the municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roth, Rhein-Hunsrück
Roth is an – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ', a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Kastellaun (Verbandsgemeinde), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the Kastellaun, like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 2 km northeast of Kastellaun and 14 km southeast of the Moselle (river), Moselle at Treis-Karden. Neighbouring municipalities Clockwise from the north, these are Beltheim, Gödenroth, Kastellaun and Uhler. History In the Middle Ages, Roth belonged to the “Further” County of Sponheim. In 1417, the village passed along with the ''Amt (country subdivision), Amt'' of Kastellaun to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim. Beginning in 1794, Roth lay under France, French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastellaun (Verbandsgemeinde)
Kastellaun is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Rhein-Hunsrück district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is in Kastellaun. On 1 July 2014 it was expanded with 3 municipalities from the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Treis-Karden Treis-Karden is an ''Ortsgemeinde (Germany), Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-P .... The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kastellaun consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate {{RheinHunsrück-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollnich
Hollnich near Kastellaun is an – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Kastellaun (Verbandsgemeinde), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the Kastellaun, like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück about 2 km east of Kastellaun. The countryside is hilly with many fields, meadows and woods. Constituent communities Hollnich's ''Ortsteile'' are the main centre – also called Hollnich – Rothenbusch and Gammelshausen. Name The municipality's name has varied in spelling over time, with the forms ''Hohlonich'', ''Holonich'', ''Hohlemich'', ''Hohlnich'', ''Kollnig'', ''Holineych'', ''Hulnich'' and finally Hollnich all known to history. What is not clear to history, however, is the name's origin. Interpretations range from the designation of a settlement ''bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ortsgemeinde (Germany)
A (; plural ) is a low-level administrative division, administrative unit in the Germany, German States of Germany, federal states of Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A is typically composed of a small group of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities. Rhineland-Palatinate The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 , which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 Districts of Germany, districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde) which comprise single settlements. Most of the were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was ''Amt (political division), Amt''. Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. Saxony-Anhalt The 11 distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States Of Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign ''states''. Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration. Two states, Berlin and Hamburg, are city-states, in which there is no separation between state government and local administration. The state of Bremen (state), Bremen is a special case: the state consists of the cities of Bremen (city), Bremen, for which the state government also serves as the municipal administration, and Bremerhaven, which has its own local administration separate from the state government. It is therefore a mixture of a city-state and an area-state. Three states, Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, use the appellation ("free state"); this title is merely stylistic and carries no legal or political significance (similar t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelical Church In Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany (, EKD), also known as the Protestant Church in Germany, is a federation of twenty Lutheranism, Lutheran, Continental Reformed Protestantism, Reformed, and united and uniting churches, United Protestantism in Germany, Protestant Landeskirche, regional Churches in Germany, collectively encompassing the vast majority of the country's Protestants. In 2022, the EKD had a membership of 19,153,000 members, or 22.7% of the German population. It constitutes one of the List of the largest Protestant churches, largest Protestant bodies in the world. Church offices managing the federation are located in Herrenhausen-Stöcken, Herrenhausen, Hanover, Lower Saxony. Many of its members consider themselves Lutherans. Historically, the first formal attempt to unify German Protestantism occurred during the Weimar Republic era in the form of the German Protestant Church Confederation, which existed from 1922 until 1933. Earlier, there had been successful royal effor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charge (heraldry)
In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field (heraldry), field of an ''Escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon'' (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ''ordinary (heraldry), ordinary'') or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object, building, or other device. In French blazon, the ordinaries are called ''pièces'', and other charges are called ''meubles'' ("[the] mobile [ones]"). The term ''charge'' can also be used as a verb; for example, if an escutcheon depicts three lion (heraldry), lions, it is said to be ''charged with three lions''; similarly, a crest or even a charge itself may be "charged", such as a pair of eagle wings ''charged with trefoils'' (as on the coat of arms of Brandenburg). It is important to distinguish between the ordinaries and divisions of the field, as they typically follow similar patterns, such as a shield ''divided'' "per chevron", as distinct from being ''charged with'' a chevron (insignia), ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum
The Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof is an open-air museum and folklore museum in the Greater SaarLorLux Region. The museum is situated in Konz, Germany, on the Saar and Mosel rivers, 8 km west of Trier and 30 km east of Luxembourg. It is a museum for rural cultural history in northwest Rhineland-Palatinate and the German-Luxembourg-Lorraine border region. Unlike many other open-air museums, the Roscheider Hof is not a public or community institution. The sponsoring organisation for the museum since its foundation has been the registered, non-profit association founded in 1973, "Volkskunde- und Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof, Konz e.V." with over 1000 members in 2007. The museum is financed by membership fees, entrance charges, subsidies and donations. The founder of the association was Prof. Rolf Robischon. Attractions * 4000 m2 of folklore exhibitions ranging from winegrowing to dentistry in the historical exhibition building and, since autumn of 2006, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
