Leuterod

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Leuterod

Location of Leuterod within Westerwaldkreis district

Coordinates: 50°29′45″N 7°49′8″E / 50.49583°N 7.81889°ECoordinates: 50°29′45″N 7°49′8″E / 50.49583°N 7.81889°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Alfons Kollas

Area

• Total

3.91 km² (1.51 sq mi)

Elevation

305 m (1,001 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

854

• Density

220/km² (570/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

56244

02602

Website

Leuterod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Leuterod’s immediate neighbours are Moschheim in the southeast, Ötzingen in the northeast, Siershahn in the west and Wirges in the southwest.

Together with the first two communities named above, Leuterod borders in the east on the Malberg, whose elevation of 422 m above sea level makes it the most notable feature on the landscape north of Montabaur. Through the community flows the Aubach, which – in the local way of seeing things – splits the community into two areas (Bereiche in German): the Unterdorf (“Lower Village”) and the Insel (“Island”). The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality.

Leuterod’s Ortsteile are Leuterod and Hosten.

Leuterod’s history reaches very far back. Finds on the Malberg confirm the existence of a Celtic hill fort (a place of worship) built there sometime between 800 and 600 BC.

In 1362, Leuterod had its first documentary mention as Wendel de lutereide. Somewhat earlier, in 1311, the outlying centre of Hosten had been mentioned as Hovesteden. Leuterod and Hosten lay at this time in the parish of Montabaur, whereby the Lords of St. Florin in Koblenz held the tithing rights.

In 1563, 12 “hearths” (Feuerstätten, that is to say, families) were counted in Leuterod. One hundred and twenty years later, owing to the frightful aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, there was only one left. According to sagas, the community was utterly destroyed in this time and then built once more on a different spot. The Altendorfer Weg, according to the saga, is supposedly the road to the village’s former site.

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