Zilshausen
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Location of Zilshausen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°6′47.29″N 7°22′59.91″E / 50.1131361°N 7.3833083°ECoordinates: 50°6′47.29″N 7°22′59.91″E / 50.1131361°N 7.3833083°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kastellaun | |
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| • Mayor | Robert Etges | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 6.63 km2 (2.56 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 360 m (1,180 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 305 | |
| • Density | 46/km2 (120/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56288 | |
| Dialling codes | 06762 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | web |
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Zilshausen 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 Kastellaun.
The municipality lies on a high plateau in the northern Hunsrück between the valleys of the Lützbach to the east and the Dünnbach to the west.
Zilshausen has one outlying Ortsteil named Petershäuser Hof.
The village arose from an agricultural estate, which was mentioned in a document from 1346 as Zullinshausen. Zilshausen may well have belonged to the so-called “three-lord” territory, which was shared by three landholders, among them the Electorate of Trier and the House of Braunshorn-Metternich-Beilstein. This arrangement was brought to an end by the French Revolutionary occupation of lands on the Rhine’s left bank in 1794. In 1814 Zilshausen was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.
In 1933, Nazism was welcomed in Zilshausen. That year, eight men from the village joined the Sturmabteilung and on 9 November, the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, there was a memorial celebration for the “heroes” who fell in Munich that day. Three days later, there was an election, which included a referendum on Adolf Hitler’s policies of withdrawing from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference. Ninety-five percent of the voters – the turnout was 98% – supported Hitler. The village chronicle comments:
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