Wöllstein Travel Guide
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Wöllstein Overview
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse roughly 8 km southeast of Bad Kreuznach (Bad Kreuznach vacation rentals | Bad Kreuznach travel guide), and 30 km southwest of Mainz (Mainz vacation rentals | Mainz travel guide). It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde.
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Maps and Driving Directions to Wöllstein
Running through the Wöllstein municipal area is Bundesstraße 420, coming from Nierstein. To the east, the Justizvollzugsanstalt Rohrbach, a prison, stands at the highway. It also leads by an industrial-commercial area. Right nearby, in Gau-Bickelheim, is the Autobahn A 61.
Historisches Haus in Wöllstein
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Wöllstein: Wöllstein (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Wöllstein
More about the History of Wöllstein
From the latter half of the 16th century, there was a postal station in Wöllstein on the Dutch Post Route running from Brussels (nowadays in Belgium rather than the Netherlands) by way of Rheinhausen (Rheinhausen vacation rentals | Rheinhausen travel guide) and Augsburg (Augsburg vacation rentals | Augsburg travel guide) to Innsbruck, Trent and Italy. The postal station had its first documentary mention in Giovanni da l’Herba’s 1563 postal travel book as Bilstain ò Vilstain, villa (that is, village). Beginning in 1578, a branch of the Dutch Post Route led from Wöllstein to Cologne (Cologne vacation rentals | Cologne travel guide). During the time when the postal system was insolvent in the late 16th century and owing to the resulting postal station operators’ strike, both postal station operator Valentin Dill (Till) and his widow, the Postfrau zu Welstein Margarethen, played a decisive rôle as strike leaders, in which they refused to carry any mailbags anywhere beyond Wöllstein. After consolidation and the founding of the Imperial Post (Kaiserliche Reichspost) in 1597, the Wöllstein postal station was still open for business, but beginning in the late 17th century, owing to route changes and cities’ growing influence, it slowly lost its importance.
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