Marienfels

Marienfels is located in (Rhein -Lahn -Kreis) in Rhineland-Palatinate at the former Upper Germanic Limes a municipality in the Taunus. Here was a Roman fortlet with bathing facilities. Marienfels belongs to the municipality Nastaetten.

History

  • During the Roman past of the place, see the separate article castle Marienfels.

The town was first mentioned as comitatus Marvels (county Marienfels ) in the year 915 and was part of the four men on the field facilities, the place of execution he was. Marienfels came in second Nastätter recess of 9 December 1775 " Dreiherrischen ", so to Nassau. Marienfels was taken over by the Act of Confederation in 1806 by the Duchy of Nassau in the wake of the Napoleonic reorganization. Following annexation by Prussia of the site from 1866 until the end of the Second World War, part of the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau and came after the state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Parish council

The local council in Marienfels 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.

Structures

The village church stands on a rock, which rises up beside the mill stream. In the small former Catholic and now Protestant church contains numerous medieval wooden panel paintings and the famous Maria with the stone mushroom she carries in her hand and was considered a symbol of fertility.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Marienfels

Infrastructure

Marienfels is located on the L335 Lahnstein - Nastaetten - Hesse.

The Rhein- Lahn district is a member of the transport association Rhein-Mosel (VRM ), the public transport fare zone covers a large part of the northern Rhineland- Palatinate.

By Marienfels leads the German Limes Cycle Route. It follows the Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes 818 km from Bad Hönningen am Rhein to Regensburg on the Danube.

Others

In Marienfels was a 1971 built and 2004 by unknown destroyed monument to the Waffen-SS, which is the destination of several right-wing rallies and marches since 2003. In early 2006 came the embedded monument again in the headlines when a planned reconstruction of the private property of the neo-Nazis Thorsten Heise was known in Fretterode.

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