Roth, Rhein-Lahn
Roth is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Katzenelenbogen.
Geography
Roth is located in the Nassau nature park about six kilometers west of Katzenelenbogen. In the northeast and southwest of the Dörsbach Hasenbach the municipal boundary forms.
To Roth also includes the residential places Hasenmühle, Mohrenhof and Neumühlestrasse.
Half of its territory is used for agriculture, 40 % is covered by forest.
History
The place is a medieval clearing. She was divided among three tithes gentlemen, the pin to Sankt Goar, Arnstein Abbey and the parish Niedertiefenbach. Roth was in 1806 part of the Duchy of Nassau, which was annexed in 1866 by the Kingdom of Prussia. Since 1946, Roth is part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded. 1972 came in the wake of the Rhineland-Palatinate " functional and territorial reform " to form the municipality Katzenelenbogen who belongs to the local church Roth since then.
The development of the population of Roth, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Roth 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.
Economy and infrastructure
As of 2007, there are three farms with an average of 62 ha of utilized agricultural area, in 1971 there were 20 farms with an average of 8 ha.
Through the town, the county road runs 51