Niedersohren

Niedersohren is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis. Four kilometres northwest of Niedersohren lies Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Niedersohren lies roughly 4 km southwest of Rhineland-Palatinate’s geographical midpoint. The cities of Mainz, Koblenz and Trier are more or less equidistant from Niedersohren.HistoryBearing witness to Roman settlement are graves found on the Via Ausonia and near the Annahof, where in 1884 fragments of a Roman grave memorial bearing a scene from daily life, and a cube-shaped quarrystone from the frieze of a second grave were unearthed. These are now found in the Museum Bonn.