Brechen

Brechen is a community in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.GeographyLocationBrechen lies in the southeastern part of the Limburg Basin between the Taunus and the Westerwald. The sparsely wooded land of loess hills is crossed here from southeast to northwest by the Emsbach, which is fed near Niederbrechen by the Wörsbach and drains the area down to the Lahn. Together with the Idsteiner Senke, which joins it in the south, this patch of countryside is customarily known as the Goldener Grund, a reference to the favourable climate and the fruitful earth.Neighbouring communitiesIn the northwest the community of Brechen borders on the district seat of Limburg, in the north on the town of Runkel, in the northeast on the market town of Villmar, in the southeast on the community of Selters and in the southwest on the community of Hünfelden (all in Limburg-Weilburg).Constituent communitiesBrechen’s three Ortsteile are Niederbrechen (administrative seat as well as biggest of the three), Oberbrechen and Werschau.Within the framework of administrative reform in Hesse on 31 December 1971, the community of Brechen came into being through the amalgamation of the formerly autonomous communities of Werschau and Niederbrechen. Since 1 July 1974, Oberbrechen has also belonged to the community.