Rennerod
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Location of Rennerod within Westerwaldkreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°36′35″N 8°4′8″E / 50.60972°N 8.06889°ECoordinates: 50°36′35″N 8°4′8″E / 50.60972°N 8.06889°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Westerwaldkreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rennerod | |
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| • Mayor | Hans-Jürgen Heene (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 18.14 km2 (7.00 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 540 m (1,770 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 4,339 | |
| • Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56477 | |
| Dialling codes | 02664 | |
| Vehicle registration | WW | |
| Website | www.stadt-rennerod.de | |
Rennerod is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Within the municipal area, until German Reunification on 3 October 1990, lay the Federal Republic’s geographical centre.
Rennerod lies in the Westerwald on Bundesstraße 54 between Limburg an der Lahn to the south and Siegen 30 km to the north. Bad Marienberg lies 10 km to Rennerod’s northwest. Through the town flows the Holzbach. Northeast of the town is found the 613 m-high Alsberg, some 2 km northnortheast of the Breitenbach Reservoir on the Breitenbach, an eastern tributary to the river Nister.
In 1217, Reynderode had its first documentary mention. Its founding, however, might go back to Carolingian times. The settlement’s importance stemmed from its location on several trading roads that linked the Siegerland, Koblenz, Frankfurt, the Lahn area and Mainz. Referring to the salt trade are field names such as Seltzerweg and Selßer Heck. Supposedly, the settlement would have been enclosed in the mid-11th century by the Counts of Diez, likely also to defend the Niederlahngau’s northern border.
After the Counts of Diez, the Nassau lines of Nassau-Diez became the landlords, as of 1420 to half of Nassau-Dillenburg, and as of 1557 to three fourths, and as well to Eppstein-Königstein, the Electorate of Trier, Katzenelnbogen and the Landgraviate of Hesse. As of 1564, Rennerod was wholly part of Nassau-Dillenburg, as of 1606 of Nassau-Beilstein, as of 1620 of Nassau-Hadamar, as of 1717 of Nassau-Diez, as of 1743 of Nassau-Orange and as of 1806 of the Grand Duchy of Berg. The House of Merenberg had considerable holdings in Rennerod’s municipal area. The House of Runkel owned the church patronage as well as other lordly rights. Further rights were held by the Lords of Westerburg as well as other noble houses and ecclesiastical institutions.
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