Rennerod

Rennerod is a city within the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland Palatinate. It is the executive headquarters of the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod, to which it belongs. Rennerod is exact consistent with nation planning as a base middle. In the city vicinity lay until the reunification of Germany on three October 1990, the geographical center of the Federal Republic of Germany. Rennerod was first cited in files as Reynderode in 1217. However, the inspiration may fit back to the Carolingian length.

The agreement was big because of its region on numerous trade routes that connected the Siegerland, Koblenz, Frankfurt, the Lahn place and Mainz. The subject names Seltzerweg and Selsser Heck seek advice from the salt exchange in this direction. Probably within the center of the 11th century the agreement turned into surrounded by way of the counts of Diez, likely also to guard the northern border of the Niederlahngau. On June 27, 1303 Emmerichenhain changed into first noted in a report. From 1564 Rennerod belonged completely to Nassau Dillenburg, from 1606 to Nassau Beilstein, from 1620 to Nassau Hadamar, from 1717 to Nassau Diez, from 1743 to Nassau Orange and from 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Berg.