Hundsangen

Hundsangen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn right at the boundary between Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. Hundsangen is by population the biggest and also the liveliest community in the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Given that leisure facilities are so abundant, that the community is near the district seats of Limburg and Montabaur, and that the transport links to the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region and the Cologne-Bonn Region are well developed, Hundsangen offers its inhabitants a high quality of life. Owing to preferred residential areas, Hundsangen has developed itself very well over the last few years, and young families find ideal surroundings here.

A mountain, the Ollmersch, is a well-known sight of Hundsangen. The community centre is named the Ollmerschhalle after it.

Neighbouring communities

Hundsangen’s neighbours are Hadamar, Dornburg, Molsberg, Wallmerod, Weroth, Dreikirchen, Obererbach and Elz.

History

In 1096, Hundsangen had its first documentary mention as Hundeszagel.

At Hundsangen’s graveyard, a Roman medallion was found. Today it is found in the Nassau Antiquities Collection (Sammlung Nassauischer Altertümer) in Wiesbaden.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Culture and sightseeing

Music

Hundsangen has a church choir, a men’s singing club and a music club.

Buildings

The Baroque parish church of St. Goar was built in 1726. The Romanesque churchtower, however, comes from the 12th century.

Parks

In Hundsangen there are several heavily frequented forests, with, for example, an educational nature trail in the forest Am Buch and a barbecue pit in the Boschern forest.

Natural monuments

In the Boschern forest are some cliffs from the time when Hundsangen was still on the seabed. They contain valuable marble, which has already been reported in the press.

Sport

Football

Hundsangen’s first football team played for many years in the football Rheinlandliga.

Shooting club

The local shooting club’s athletes have also made it to the German Championships.

Other

Besides all the classic sport offerings, those with ambitions in sport can find various possibilities in the HSV, the local sport club.

Sport facilities

There are sporting grounds in the forest Am Buch with two football fields, and there is training in the main hall at the Ollmerschhalle. In the centre of Hundsangen, there is also a small football area. There is a shooting house in the Boschern forest.

Regular events

Hundsangen always holds its kermis in August, on the weekend after Assumption.

Particularly impressive are the yearly Carnival events in this Westerwald community. Besides the Kappensitzungen held every year, the parade held every four years is a magnet for the public and draws tens of thousands of onlookers.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Right through the community runs Bundesstraße 8, linking Limburg an der Lahn and Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Diez, Limburg an der Lahn and Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 9 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stops are the railway stations at Montabaur and Limburg Süd on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The Rhine-Main and Cologne urban agglomerations are thereby easily reached.

Education

Hundsangen has at its disposal a Catholic kindergarten and a primary school. Secondary schools (Gymnasien in Hadamar, Limburg and Montabaur, Realschulen in Hadamar and Montabaur as well as Hauptschulen in Salz, Montabaur and Hadamar) are linked to the community by local public transport.

Media

The official medium for citizen information in Hundsangen is the collective municipality’s weekly gazette. A private medium is found in the Internet page “HundsNET”, which belongs to a homepage which contains, among other things, further information about the Nassauer Land (see External links).