Rödern (Hunsrück)

Rödern 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 Kirchberg, whose seat is in the town of Kirchberg.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the central Hunsrück, roughly 3 km east of Kirchberg, which lies on a rise, and 6 km westsouthwest of Simmern. To the east is the Kauerbach valley. The municipal area measures 2.72 km², of which 1.27 km² is wooded.HistoryIn Sections 97 and 98 of the Hallschied State Forest are prehistoric and protohistoric barrows, bearing witness to early settlers in the area.Around 1250 or 1260, Rödern had its first documentary mention in the later of the enfeoffment books kept by Werner II of Bolanden. An estate at Rödern was transferred in 1338 by Count Johann of Sponheim-Starkenburg to Archbishop of Trier Baldwin as a fief. Later, feudal rights were held by the Junkers of Koppenstein, to whom the Lötscherhof (estate), formerly held by the Counts of Sponheim, also belonged as a fief, granted for military service. The Lötschermühle (mill) is nowadays in private ownership.