Leiningen

Leiningen is an Ortsgemeinde a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a sort of collective municipality in the Rhein Hunsruck Kreis in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Emmelshausen, whose seat is inside the eponymous city. The Counts of Leyen at Gondorf have been Leiningen’s lords in the Middle Ages. Beginning in 1794, Leiningen lay beneath French rule. In 1815 it turned into assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia on the Congress of Vienna.

Since 1946, it's been part of the then newly founded nation of Rhineland Palatinate. The cutting edge municipality got here into being on 7 June 1969 under the name Leiningen Lamscheid and was a merger of hitherto self-administering municipalities that had been dissolved, called Leiningen and Lamscheid. On 1 January 1981, but, the name turned into shortened to Leiningen. In 1780, this spring was set in stone as a token of thanks by Imperial Countess Marianne von der Leyen. About 1786, Sauerbrunnen turned into a spa centre and the water turned into sold overseas. By 1789, the properly was falling into disrepair.