Weilrod

Weilrod
Coat of arms
Weilrod
Location of Weilrod within Hochtaunuskreis district
Coordinates: 50°20′N 8°25′E / 50.333°N 8.417°E / 50.333; 8.417Coordinates: 50°20′N 8°25′E / 50.333°N 8.417°E / 50.333; 8.417
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Hochtaunuskreis
Government
• Mayor	Axel Bangert (SPD)
Area
• Total	71.16 km2 (27.48 sq mi)
Elevation	210-626 m (−1,844 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	6,487
• Density	91/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	61276
Dialling codes	06083, 06084
Vehicle registration	HG
Website	www.weilrod.de

Weilrod is a municipality made up of several villages in the northwest Hochtaunuskreis lying in the Weil Valley in Hesse, Germany.

Weilrod lies north of the crest of the Taunus, from 210 to 600 m above sea level. The nearest bigger towns are Limburg (25 km) in the west, Wetzlar (30 km) in the north, Wiesbaden (35 km) in the south and Frankfurt am Main (35 km) in the southeast.

Weilrod borders in the north on the communities of Weilmünster (Limburg-Weilburg) and Grävenwiesbach, in the east on the town of Usingen, in the south on the communities of Schmitten (all in the Hochtaunuskreis) and Waldems (Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis), and in the west on the town of Bad Camberg and the community of Selters (both in Limburg-Weilburg).

The community has 13 centres named Altweilnau, Cratzenbach, Emmershausen, Finsternthal, Gemünden, Hasselbach (), Mauloff, Niederlauken, Neuweilnau, Oberlauken, Rod an der Weil, Riedelbach and Winden.

The earliest written record of a village in the area is of Mauloff ("Mulefo") in 1156. The imposing round tower at the castle ruins in Altweilnau has been dated to about 1200.

The merger of the individual communities into the greater community of Weilrod took place in 1972.

The name Weilrod stems on the one hand from the river Weil, a brook that forms Weilrod's and neighbouring Schmitten's landscape, and on the other hand from the German word Roden – "clearing".