Dommershausen

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Dommershausen

Location of Dommershausen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 50°8′37″N 7°23′52″E / 50.14361°N 7.39778°ECoordinates: 50°8′37″N 7°23′52″E / 50.14361°N 7.39778°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Hermann Neumann

Area

• Total

24.70 km² (9.54 sq mi)

Elevation

340 m (1,120 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,086

• Density

44/km² (110/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

56290

02605

SIM

Dommershausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück. The main centre, also called Dommershausen, lies on a ridge between the Baybach and Lützbach valleys. It has 451 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2009).

Places near Dommershausen, including unincorporated ones, are Heyweiler, Sabershausen, Lahr, Lieg, Lütz, Eveshausen, Dorweiler, Macken and Beulich.

Along with the main centre of Dommershausen, the municipality includes the three outlying Ortsteile of Dorweiler, Eveshausen and Sabershausen.

In 1220, Dommershausen had its first documentary mention as Dumershusen. What the mention reveals is that Dumershusen was not subject to any kind of taxation. The village belonged to the Beltheim Court and thereby lay under three lordships: the Electorate of Trier, the Counts of Sponheim and the Lords of Braunshorn. After this last family died out, their share in the Court passed to the family Winneburg, and after this family also died out, the share passed to the family Metternich. Beginning in 1794, Dommershausen lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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