Dessighofen

Dessighofen ( local dialect: " Dessje ") is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Nassau.

Geography

Dessighofen is on the institutions in the Taunus mountains in the southwest of the community association.

History

Dessighofen belonged to Einrichgau and is mentioned in 1145 in a charter of the monastery of Schönau first time. Dessighofen came in the 14th century to " Vierherrischen " dish on the facilities. 1775 was the place to dreiherrischen Office Nassau. Temporarily occupied by French troops ( "pays reserve" ), the place belonged from 1816 to the Duchy of Nassau. Since 1866 part of the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau, the place was in 1946 part of the state of Rhineland -Palatinate then newly founded. Dessighofen belongs since 1972 to the community association to Nassau.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Dessighofen consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The municipality operates since 1991 own coat of arms: "In gold over a five-petalled green oak branch with two red acorns a jumping black horse. "