Leiningen

Geschichte

Leiningen 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 Emmelshausen, whose seat is in the eponymous town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the heights of the Vorderhunsrück (“Fore-Hunsrück”) roughly 15 km from the Rhine and the Moselle, and 30 km from Koblenz. The direct interchange onto the Autobahn A 61 affords a quick link to places to the north and south.From here run a great many hiking trails and a direct link to the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path); the outlying centre of Lamscheid lies right on this cycle path.Constituent communitiesLeiningen’s Ortsteile besides the main centre, also called Leiningen, are Lamscheid, Sauerbrunnen and Schloß Reifenthal, which despite its name is actually a hamlet, not a castle or a palace.