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The river Lahn in Limburg. Limburg lies in western Hesse between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn.. The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the Rhenish Slate Mountains which is surrounded by the low ranges of the Taunus and Westerwald and called the Limburg Basin (Limburger Becken).
Gerlach V's reign began on the death of his father John I in 1312. Under Gerlach II, the city of Limburg an der Lahn achieved its highest medieval flowering. The chronicler Tilemann Elhen reported that, at the height of its prosperity, the city could summon over 2,000 weapons-capable citizens.
The city of Limburg an der Lahn was strategically important due to its location on the main trade route from Cologne to Frankfurt. This led to frequent conflicts with neighbouring lordships and made the city a target of robber-barons. As a result, the city was heavily fortified by the Counts of Limburg. Towers were built around the city in 1315.
John I of Isenburg-Limburg, "The blind Lord" (died 29 September 1312) was from 1289 Count of (Isenburg-) Limburg and the head of the House of Limburg. The core territory of the Lordship of Limburg consisted of the city of Limburg an der Lahn and several surrounding villages.
Walter Lutz: Zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik am Dom zu Limburg von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Schott, Mainz 1986 ISBN 3795713285 (Beiträge zur mittelrheinischen Musikgeschichte 27) Wolfgang Metternich: Der Dom zu Limburg an der Lahn. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994 ISBN 3534015797
Its cathedral church is St George's Cathedral Limburg an der Lahn. The diocese's largest church is Frankfurt Cathedral, St. Bartholomew. From October 2013, the administrator of the diocese during the suspension of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is Wolfgang Rösch. The Bishop later resigned.
Dietkirchen an der Lahn is a borough of Limburg an der Lahn, seat of the district of Limburg-Weilburg in the state of Hesse, Germany. [2] The formerly independent village was incorporated into Limburg in 1971. The town is dominated by the basilica St. Lubentius, which was the most important early-medieval church building in the region.
Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Lahn-Dill , Hochtaunuskreis , Rheingau-Taunus , Rhein-Lahn , Westerwaldkreis . History