Korweiler

Korweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the northern Hunsrück on a ridge east of the Dünnbach valley.Korweiler is a typical bunched village, which has gathered itself around its Catholic church. Built in 1907 with a single nave, the Bartholomäuskapelle (Saint Bartholomew’s Chapel) is consecrated to Bartholomew the Apostle.HistoryThe oldest evidence of settlers in the area comes from early La Tène times. In 1939 and 1940, while cross-country paths were being built, Iron Age settlement groups were unearthed. Going by the ceramics that were found then, the settlements are about 2,400 years old and belong to the later Hunsrück-Eifel Culture. No further investigations were undertaken at the time – it was, after all, during the Second World War – but it is quite likely that Iron Age houses once stood here.