Reidenhausen

Reidenhausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies on some heights in the northern Hunsrück.HistoryAbout 1310, Reudinhusin had its first documentary mention. Reidenhausen (sometimes also Rodenhausen), which together with Blankenrath formed a single municipality, was under French rule in 1794 separated from its neighbour. In 1814 Reidenhausen was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Under the Verwaltungsvereinfachungsgesetz (“Administration Simplification Law”) of 18 July 1970, with effect from 7 November 1970, the municipality was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell.