Lindenholzhausen (in local dialect "Hollesse") has been a district of the Town of Limburg an der Lahn since 1972. The population on the 31st Jan. 2007 was 3,377. Lindenholzhausen has an average elevation of 170 metres above sea level and an area of 831.7 hectares (ha), making it the largest district of Limburg an der Lahn, the others being Ahlbach, Blumenrod, Dietkirchen, Eschhofen, Linter, Offheim and Staffel.

During its history, the village has had numerous variations of its current name: Hultshusin prope Ribesangin, Holtshusen bi Ribesangen, Holtzhusen prope Lympurg, Hulzhusen zo der lynden and Lynnenholzhausen.

The name Lindenholzhausen is a compound noun comprising the nouns Holz, Hausen, and Linde. Holz, meaning timber^BrE/lumber^AE, probably originates from the Old Saxon "holt" meaning forest, wood, timber/lumber and the Old High German "hulta" also meaning timber/lumber. The noun Hausen which in standard German is only found as a suffix in place names (the verb hausen means to dwell, to reside) probably originates from the Old High German "husen" meaning hamlet or settlement. The compounds "holtshusen", "hultshusen" and similar would mean hamlet/settlement (in the clearing) in/[at the edge of] the forest/wood. Linde, meaning lime^BrE/linden^AE tree, would extend the compound Holzhausen to mean hamlet/settlement with the lime/linden tree (in the clearing) in/[at the edge of] the forest/wood.

Although this method of identifying a location may seem somewhat arbitrary, it does uniquely identify the village within the whole of Germany; a query for Holzhausen in the online postal code index (PLZ suchen)[1] of the German Post returns 71 results, whereas a query for Lindenholzhausen returns just one. As if rendering homage to its distinguishing nature, a single lime/linden tree is depicted on the escutcheon of the village's coat of arms. This was the Gerichtslinde of the area. In fact these were several trees in a sequence through the centuries, the last one fell victim to a lightning in the 1930s. A new linden was planted after WWII, but not at its historic site, which however still bears the field name ("Flurname"). The villages current coat of arms is based on the justice court seal of 1486: in gold a stylized, green linden tree with roots. Lindenholzhausen was one of the seats of a "Grafschaftsgerichts" (countship justice court)of the Counts of Diez and is mentioned in the sources thus in 1342 and 1485. The "Kirchspielgericht" (parrish justice court) of Lindenholzhausen (denoted thus in 1486) was a civil and criminal court. It comprised Lindenholzhausen (where the court bldg. was situated) the villages of Eschhofen with Mühlen, Dietkirchen and the no more existing places of Rübsangen, Vele, Mailstatt (near Eschhofen) and Kreuch (within the Limburg bridgehead settlement).

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