Nordhofen

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Nordhofen

Location of Nordhofen within Westerwaldkreis district

Coordinates: 50°31′7″N 7°45′12″E / 50.51861°N 7.75333°ECoordinates: 50°31′7″N 7°45′12″E / 50.51861°N 7.75333°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Helmut Zender

Area

• Total

3.86 km² (1.49 sq mi)

Elevation

269 m (883 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

540

• Density

140/km² (360/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

56242

02626

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

The recognized tourist community of Nordhofen lies on the abandoned stretch of the Westerwaldbahn (railway) between Siershahn and Altenkirchen in the heart of a mountainous landscape wooded with beeches and spruces. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1259, Nordhofen had its first documentary mention. In 1357, Emperor Karl IV granted Count Wilhelm of Wied the right to expand Nordhofen into a town. He received the right “to be allowed to build with stones, put together, lay out and make into a walled town the village and its layout with moats, walls, towers, oriels, gates, and other things as he can and likes to do, without anyone’s hindering or speaking against it”. Owing to the absence of the natural conditions for a town location, the town of Nordhofen could not be properly developed. Hence, in 1653, Emperor Ferdinand III transferred the town rights from Nordhofen to the more favourable location of the new settlement of Neuwied at the request of the then Count Friedrich of Wied. In 1972, in the course of municipal restructuring, the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters was founded, to which Nordhofen belongs.

To the Evangelical parish belong the communities of Nordhofen, Mogendorf, Vielbach and Quirnbach. Until 1851, Selters and the surrounding villages also belonged to the parish.

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