(ship tunnel exit) and 258.7m (848,7 ft) (city exit Limburger Str./turn-off Waldhausen). In Weilburg and the districts lived on 31 December 2015 13337 people. The lowest point is 125.9 m. (413,1 ft) above sea level. at Kirchhofen and the highest with 370.1 m. (1214,2 ft) above sea level. at Hohenstein near Hasselbach. (Source Wikipedia). History: For the first time Weilburg was mentioned under the name Wilineburch in 906. 918, the place gained special historical significance, as King Konrad on the deathbed, the Reichsinsignien the Saxon King Henry. 1295 Weilburg received the city rights. In 1355, Count Johann I von Nassau built his residence, made some structural changes and in 1359 built a stone bridge over the river Lahn. For several centuries, the house Nassau- Weilburg shaped the fate of the city. 1535 was the four-winged high castle of Count Philip III. built, which was expanded by Count Johann Ernst. The construction of a park and the change of the city front also fell into the time of Count Johann Ernst (1664 - 1719). From the year 1806 Weilburg was the seat of government of the Duchy of Weilburg  (until 1816). Weilburg was annexed in 1866, and with it the Duchy of Nassau of Prussia. Weilburg is also known for its built after 1800 mud rammed buildings (Pisé buildings) A Weilburg tradition is the civil guard of the city Weilburg e.V. It was founded in 1788 as Bürgersöhnekorps, from which then emerged in 1813 the uniformed citizens and Bürgersöhnekorps. Today the citizen guard is carrier and organizer of the Weilburger Kirchweih, which is celebrated since 1593.

Despite all the changes, some traditions such as the shooting of the fair, the shooting on the honorary disc with prizes and the fair dance have been preserved. During the Third Reich, the National Socialists in Weilburg had the say. The pogrom night left its ugly traces in the city. The synagogue was not destroyed only because it had passed into the possession of a Weilburg merchant. Commemorative plaques for the Jewish victims from Weilburg are located in the Jewish cemetery and on a clay tablet on the south side of the castle church. Weilburg was up to the regional reform in

1974 county seat of the Oberlahnkreis and then Limburg became the county seat of the district Limburg-Weilburg. The city Weilburg has from 17.6. until 26.6.2005 the Hessentag aligned. This also changed the street layout in Weilburg's city center and built the Oberlahnbrücke and a car tunnel for better transport connections. Weilburg has 6 partner cities and a partnership. Partner city           since Privas, France 1958 Zevenaar, Netherlands 1966 Kežmarok, Slovakia 1990 Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg        2004 Kizilcahamam, Turkey          2006 Quattro Castella, Italy          2010     Partnership with the district group Rheingau-Hessen-Nassau of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces e.V. Weilburg also has connections to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Since 1890, the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg emerged from the House of Nassau. This is also evidenced by the twinning with Colmar-Berg in Luxembourg. In Weilburg there were also calamities that found their way into the media. On 25.04.1910 an airship Zeppelin Z2 (LZ5) is stranded in Weilburg At the rock a blackboard reminds of the disaster. The airship was unmanned and had pulled loose in a strong wind near Homburg. Then the airship drove without direction in the direction of Weilburg and crashed on Webers mountain, a rock between the Guntersau and Weilburg. In the local museum are still very small remnants of the covering and the aluminum framework to see. Another misfortune was a major fire in Weilburg's city center on October 18, 1972. Parts of the castle, the community center, large parts of the local museum and residential buildings were the victims of this. On this day we had just finished school at the gym on the Hainallee. As the sirens howled and smoke rose over the city, I ran again towards the city center. The smoke in the streets and the narrow buildings in the city did not make it easy for the fire brigades to control the fire. But it could be prevented that even more damage was done. Weilburg also has a lot to offer in terms of architecture. So there is Germany's oldest ship's tunnel. The tunnel underpasses the Mühlberg over a length of 195 m. ( 640 ft) The idea of building a ship's tunnel dates back to 1838. The tunnel was then inaugurated on 18 September 1847. Its importance as a shipping lane lost the ship's tunnel after only 10 years. From 1857, the transports were relocated to the Lahn Valley Railway. Since the Hessentag 2005 an autotunnel was built parallel to the ship's tunnel. Thus, Weilburg has a car, rail and shipping tunnel right next to each other. I believe that such a thing is very rare. Another special feature are the so-called Pisé buildings. These are mud rammed buildings (by France Piser). The house Hainallee 1 with its 6 floors is considered the largest Pisé building in Germany. In Weilburg there are still numerous buildings in Pisé construction.

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Weilburger Castle Aerial photograph Source: Weilburger Tageblatt from SA 3.3.2018

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Weilburg is located between the Westerwald and the Taunus with the Lahn as a dividing line, about 55 km (34miles) NW from Frankfurt am Main. The exact geographic location is 8 ° 16 'east longitude and 50 ° 29' north latitude. The height above sea level moves in Weilburg between 127.6 m (418 ft)