Montabaur

Montabaur is a state identified traveler resort and seat of the district management of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland Palatinate. The town is also administrative headquarters of the same municipality, which includes another 24 neighborhood church buildings. According to state making plans Montabaur is designated as a center. Nationally recognized are the citadel, the style outlet middle and the educate station Montabaur with ICE connection to the excessive pace line Cologne Rhine Main.

Montabaur has a history that may be traced lower back to the year 959, when the citadel Humbach, castellum Humbacense, modern-day castle, turned into first mentioned in a record. The archbishop of Trier Dietrich von Wied, who returned from the Holy Land in 1217 after a crusade, rebuilt the ruined humbacense fortress and named it due to the similarity of the Humbacher hill with the mountain Tabor in modern day Israel that is taken into consideration the area of the transfiguration of Christ Mons Tabor, which became Montabaur. In 1291, King Rudolf of Habsburg 1218 to 1291 granted Montabaur collectively with Welschbillig, Mayen, Bernkastel and Saarburg the city rights.