Welterod

Welterod is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Nastaetten.

Geography

The place is located in the Taunus and has an area of 9.95 km ² and 500 inhabitants. Welterod belongs to the adjoining villages Strüth and Lipporn the Bailiwick. To Welterod includes the living spaces and courtyard Angschied Ullmark.

History

In 1117 Dudo of Lauren Castle transferred his entire estate to the monastery Schaffhausen establishing a lowland castle in Lipporn. A little later, it emerged today Located outside Strüth Schönau Abbey. 1541 to 1544 saw the introduction of the Reformation in Strüth, Welterod and Lipporn. Schönau Abbey remained Catholic. During the Thirty Years' War, the town was plundered several times.

In 1806 the place in the possession of the duchy of Nassau, which in turn was annexed in 1866 by the Kingdom of Prussia. After the First World War was the place during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland in a narrow corridor between the right of the Rhine bridgeheads of Americans to Koblenz and the French to Mainz. The area was up to the military occupation by France in 1923 as the Free State bottleneck. After the Second World War, the city was in the French occupation zone directly at the zone boundary to the occupied by the Americans Hesse and since 1946 has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

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

Parish council

The local council in Welterod 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. The previous council consisted of twelve councilors.

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