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The name “Westerwald” was first mentioned in 1048 in a document from the Electorate of Trier and described at that time the woodlands (Wald is German for “forest” or “woods”) around the three churches in Bad Marienberg, Rennerod and Emmerichenhain, west of the royal court at Herborn. Only since the mid 19th century has the name come into common usage for the whole range.

Geomorphologically, the Westerwald belongs to the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Rhenish Slate Mountains), forming the greater part of that range’s eastern half on the Rhine’s right bank. Likewise, the Gladenbach Uplands, lying east of the Dill, also belongs to the Westerwald, whereas the mountains reaching up to 680 m near the Haiger Saddle (Haiger Sattel) and east of Siegen are counted as part of the Rothaargebirge.

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Limburg an der Lahn

Limburg an der Lahn (officially: Limburg a. d. Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.

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Montabaur

Montabaur is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. At the same time, it is also the administrative centre of the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur – a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate…

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Bad Ems

Bad Ems is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the county seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well-known as a bathing resort on the river Lahn. Bad Ems is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde (collective municipality) Bad Ems.

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Goddert

Goddert is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Wallmerod

Wallmerod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Haiger

Haiger is a country town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Siegen, about 25 km north of Haiger.

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Werdorf

Werdorf is a small district in the central Hesse town Aßlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis.

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Rothenbach

Rothenbach is an Ortsgemeinde in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Runkel

Runkel is a town on the Lahn River in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg.

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Gemünden

A Romantic poet could not have imagined the location and appearance of Gemünden in the West of Germany any better. This lovely small town in the Westerwald lies in a valley surrounded by impressive mountains in the North and East and is wide open towards…

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