WaldmÃ¼hlen

Waldmühlen is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rennerod.

3.1 municipal
3.2 Coat of Arms

4.1 traffic

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg. The Wood Creek crosses the B 54 in the village.

History

The town was first mentioned as Walkmohle documented in the 15th century. If you want to explain the place name "Forest Mills ", one may conclude the present spelling on a "Forest Mill". The first roll-call mentions the place and the notations used in this case to give a better explanation. In old documents it says " from the Walckmohle " (1480 ), " Walckmühlen " ( 1524) and " Walckmüln " ( 1543). Only in 1752 the present notation will be used. So the earlier entries have a fulling mill, and thus towards the trade of wool weaver, whose cloth was fulled at the mill. Even in later years, the small town was south of Rennerod for regional cloth processing of meaning. 1787 one counts 72 cotton spinner and 1792, when Jakob Buchner here a Baumwollfaktorei. Although the said fulling mill was probably already fallen in 1592, put the place continues its tradition mill. 1653 Christian Sauer built a cutting mill, which was later operated as oil and flour mill. Above the village built Johann Hans 1719 another mill, which was later called the locksmith mill. In the already mentioned 1330 Eichelerhof ( in the northeast part of the village ), the historian Dr. Gensicke suspects a precursor settlement of the place. The monastery Blessed city stood here from 1330 to 1520 monetary and interest cheese. The deserted village Himmenhain ( first mentioned in 1213/15 ) to be regarded as founder cell to Waldmühlen, must be questioned.

The place has seen many rulers since its creation. First, the Count of Nassau -Diez Lord were in the room Rennerod. Except for short interruptions, were the individual Nassau mansions centuries lords of the forest mills. In 1806, the transition of Orange-Nassau to the Grand Duchy of Berg. 1816 ended French rule and Forest Mills was in the Duchy of Nassau office Rennerod belonging.

The school 's history dates back to the year 1720. Those days a winter school was held and although until 1811 still from house to house in turn. 1831 the first school was built. 1927 successes of the construction of the new school, which is now used as a residence. The school was closed down in 1969.

In 1931 there were two mills in the village, a blacksmith, a sawmill, a grocer and two restaurants. Of this was the place over the years, only the restaurant " Kastanienhof " get. All other businesses were set.

Religions

Ecclesiastically the place belonged to 1614 to the neighboring Seck, then to Rennerod. In June 1957, the work on the construction of the chapel began. The Branch Church of St. John the Baptist in Waldmühlen belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Hubertus in Rennerod, diocese of Limburg. The approximately 70 evangelical Christians in Waldmühlen include the protestant church Rennerod, Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, to.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Waldmühlen 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.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " Late Gothic Buckler, well -shaped split up in gold, a red clover cross staff, each accompanied by a slight right or left diagonally placed green oak leaf, below in blue a golden mill wheel ".

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Directly through the place the B 54, which connects Limburg an der Lahn with victories runs.
The nearest motorway junctions are Herborn and Haiger -Burbach on the A45 Dortmund- casting, further Montabaur and Limburg -Nord on the A 3 Frankfurt - Cologne, all 20 to 25 kilometers away.
The nearest ICE breakpoints are Montabaur station or train station Limburg Süd, both at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

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