Gondershausen

Gondershausen
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Gondershausen Location of Gondershausen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°09′38″N 7°29′29″E / 50.16059°N 7.49142°E / 50.16059; 7.49142Coordinates: 50°09′38″N 7°29′29″E / 50.16059°N 7.49142°E / 50.16059; 7.49142
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.	Emmelshausen
Government
• Mayor	Karl-Josef Adams
Area
• Total	13.45 km2 (5.19 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,256
• Density	93/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56283
Dialling codes	06745
Vehicle registration	SIM
Website	www.ortsgemeinde-gondershausen.de

Gondershausen 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 Emmelshausen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the northernmost part of the Hunsrück between the Baybach and Ehrbach valleys to the north and south, and the Rhine and the Moselle in the east and west.

Barrows in Schorfeld, Steinmelt, Lampenheck and Scheidwald bear witness to early human habitation in the Gondershausen area in Hallstatt times (1000-400 BC). Vessels and ironware have also been unearthed locally at some of the newer barrows. These date from La Tène times (400-100 BC). By about 50 BC, the most influential culture was the Roman Empire. The Romans built watermains and were the first to use bricks in the region. Eventually, they also brought the first contact with Christianity.

The antiquarian Johann Christian von Stramberg noted that in AD 367, “Roman riders came by way of Guntershusin and in a dale found a few cottages, called Pichenbach.” Christianization came between 400 and 600.

In 893, King Arnulf donated holdings to St. Maximin’s Benedictine Abbey in Trier. Gondershausen, however, is not mentioned by name, though there is an etching in the document.

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