Emmelshausen

Emmelshausen is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, and in state planning is set out as a lower centre.GeographyLocationThe City lies in the Hunsrück roughly 6 km from the Rhine, south of Boppard and west of Sankt Goar.Constituent communitiesThe Stadtteil of Liesenfeld lies on Emmelshausen’s western town limit, on Landesstraße (State Road) 206 towards Gondershausen. It is the town’s oldest centre. There is another Stadtteil called Basselscheid.HistoryThe earliest written documents date the founding of the settlement of Liesenfeld to the 15th century. As early as the 13th century, there was within what are now Emmelshausen’s limits a settlement of the same name, which over time was forsaken. In the forest east of Emmelshausen was the Gallenscheid Court’s execution place. The Court’s administrative seat was Castle Schöneck. In 1314, the Court was pledged by the Empire to the Electorate of Trier, but the pledge was never redeemed. Beginning in 1794, Emmelshausen lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.