Freudenberg

Freudenberg is a city in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The metropolis lies on the German-Dutch excursion street called the Orange Route, joining towns, towns and areas associated with the House of Orange. The metropolis of Freudenberg in its modern form got here into being via municipal reform on 1 January 1969. Into it the seventeen formerly self-status municipalities of Alchen, Bottenberg, Buhl, Buschergrund, Dirlenbach, Freudenberg, Heisberg, Hohenhain, Lindenberg, Mausbach, Niederheuslingen, Niederholzklau, Niederndorf, Oberfischbach, Oberheuslingen, Oberholzklau and Plittershagen have been merged into one.

The oldest constituent communities are maximum probable the two that had been both stated in documents inside the eleventh century, particularly Plittershagen and Oberholzklau in 1079. Freudenberg is thought to had been an Amt and courtroom seat as of the early fifteenth century. The village and the fort of Freudenberg had their first documentary point out in 1389. The fort turned into based over the Weibe Valley collectively with a settlement by means of the Counts of Nassau as a corner publish in their area. Count Johann IV of Nassau, Vianden and Diez gave the Freudenberg townsfolk their "freedom rights" on 7 November 1456. This become a sort of minimum city rights, but the document bestowing this distinction upon the city is taken as evidence of city rights being granted Freudenberg.