Dornburg, Hesse
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Location of Dornburg within Limburg-Weilburg district
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| Coordinates: 50°30′13″N 08°01′28″E / 50.50361°N 8.02444°ECoordinates: 50°30′13″N 08°01′28″E / 50.50361°N 8.02444°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Hesse | |
| Admin. region | Gießen | |
| District | Limburg-Weilburg | |
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| • Mayor | Andreas Höfner (CDU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 33.21 km2 (12.82 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 194 m (636 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 8,527 | |
| • Density | 260/km2 (670/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 65599 | |
| Dialling codes | 06436 | |
| Vehicle registration | LM | |
| Website | www.dornburg.de | |
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Dornburg is a community in the Westerwald in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Dornburg borders in the north and west on communities in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, with the other neighbours all lying in Limburg-Weilburg. Among them is the town of Hadamar, historically the seat of a county.
Dornburg’s Ortsteile are Frickhofen (administrative seat; celebrates its 1,200-year jubilee in 2009), Langendernbach, Dorndorf (state-recognized health resort), Thalheim and Wilsenroth (state-recognized air spa)
The “Dornburg”, which gave the community its name after its forerunner communities were amalgamated in 1974, is a roughly 396-m-high elevation upon which are found the remains of a ringwall site from La Tène times (5th to 1st century BC). Within it lay a Celtic settlement rather like a town. On the Blasiusberg was a worship place. The Christian chapel built there later served until 1734 as the parish church for eleven of the area’s villages.
The founding of the five villages that now make up the community of Dornburg goes back in some cases more than 1,200 years. Wilsenroth had its first documentary mention in 879 under the name Welsenderode – meaning the area cleared by Willesind – as did also Langendernbach when Count Gebhard in the Lahngau donated property here to the St. Severus Monastery in Gemünden.
Dorndorf’s first documentary mention under the name Torndorph stems from the year 772. Frickhofen (Fridechuba, roughly estate surrounded by peace) was founded sometime between 802 and 812.
In 1636, the Plague ravaged Dornburg. In Dorndorf only a single family survived.
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