Dörsdorf

Dörsdorf is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Katzenelenbogen.

Geography

The village is located about four kilometers southeast of Katzenelenbogen. Due to the location of the Dörsbach flows.

To Dörsdorf and the living space belongs Weidgesmühle.

History

Until 1479 the place was owned by the Counts of Katzenelnbogen. He then passed through an exchange of Eberhard von Eppstein - Königstein. Since 1816, the village belonged to the Duchy of Nassau and the patent office Nastaetten, from 1866 to Prussia and to the lower Lahn district in the administrative district of Wiesbaden. Since 1946 Dörsdorf is part of the country then newly Rhineland -Palatinate and by the end of 1999 the administrative district of Montabaur. 1972 came in the wake of the Rhineland-Palatinate " functional and territorial reform " to form the municipality Katzenelenbogen who belongs to the local church Dörsdorf ever since.

The development of the population of Dörsdorf, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

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