Waldbreitbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied , in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It is situated in the Westerwald , on the river Wied , approx. 16 km north of Neuwied .
5-650: Waldbreitbach was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Waldbreitbach . The place was first mentioned in documents (spelled "Bretpah") in 857. In the following centuries the dominion over the place changed several times between Thuringia , Cologne and Sayn . Between 1806 and 1815 the village belonged to the Duchy of Nassau , then to Prussia . In 1815 406 people were living in Waldbreitbach. This number increased to 2118 in 1997 and as of 2018 there were officially 1828 inhabitants. On
10-492: A mill with a water wheel from 1911. This Neuwied district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde ( German pronunciation: [fɛɐ̯ˈbantsɡəˌmaɪndə] ; plural Verbandsgemeinden ) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt . A Verbandsgemeinde
15-498: Is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden , which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde ) which comprise single settlements. Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit
20-525: The Wied stands an oil mill , which started production in 1676. Only four years later it was destroyed by a flood. The mill was rebuilt in 1700 and was in operation until 1948. It is considered the oldest oil mill of this type in the Rhineland . In the 1990s an old half-timbered house was dismantled in nearby Bremscheid and rebuilt next to the mill as a museum of crafts and trade. About 100 meters upstream stands
25-443: Was Amt . Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. The 11 districts of Saxony-Anhalt are divided into Verwaltungsgemeinschaften and, since 1 July 2009 also Verbandsgemeinden . Since
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