Niedersohren

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Niedersohren

Location of Niedersohren within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 49°55′43″N 7°19′54″E / 49.92861°N 7.33167°ECoordinates: 49°55′43″N 7°19′54″E / 49.92861°N 7.33167°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Helmut Karl

Area

• Total

3.90 km² (1.51 sq mi)

Elevation

380 m (1,250 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

457

• Density

120/km² (300/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55487

06543

SIM

Niedersohren 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 Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the valley of the Sohrbach. The municipal area measures 3.90 km², 0.89 km² of which is wooded.

North of the village runs Bundesstraße 50, while to the south runs the historical Via Ausonia, a Roman road (called the Ausoniusstraße in German). Four kilometres northwest of Niedersohren lies Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Niedersohren lies roughly 4 km southwest of Rhineland-Palatinate’s geographical midpoint. The cities of Mainz, Koblenz and Trier are more or less equidistant from Niedersohren.

Bearing witness to Roman settlement are graves found on the Via Ausonia and near the Annahof, where in 1884 fragments of a Roman grave memorial bearing a scene from daily life, and a cube-shaped quarrystone from the frieze of a second grave were unearthed. These are now found in the Museum Bonn.

In 1301, King Albrecht enfeoffed Eberhard von Sponheim with the village. The Counts of Sponheim held an estate in Niedersohren

In the 18th century, the Margrave of Baden was the landholder. Beginning in 1794, Niedersohren 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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