Nassau

Nassau is settled in the Lahn valley between Koblenz and Limburg and has approx. 6000 inhabitants. You can find out more about Nassau under the following link Touristik in Nassau . When you drive alongside the river Lahn, the valley widens and once you pass Dausenau you will be stunned by the beautiful view overlooking the city of Nassau. At the mouth of the Lahn four brooks cross over the original stream and from Mainz to Wiesbaden and the north leading highway lies the river valley. At the beginning of the 19th Century in the "Bäderstrasse" a big road project headed by the new duchy of Nassau had been implemented alongside the Riverīs Valley. Between the Lahn and the slow flowing Mühlbach a mountain top castle adjoining the main castle of Nassau juts out over the landscape. Today the townscape, includes all epochs from the Middle Ages right up to the present day which have been controlled since 1977 by the steep helmet of the donjon.
The place arose, according to sources through a royal Fronhof, which in 915 first mentioned the term "Nassovia". With the establishment of the castle in the first decades of the 12th Century and the "Socage" of the archbishop of Trier in 1159 the counts of Nassau exerted their influence by deciding to protect the fate of the castle, itīs city and the surrounding countryside.







The main turning point was the division of Nassau land. The Walram and the Otto line developed. The Walramische line appointed in 1292 Adolf of Nassau a German king to lead the people. The Ottonische line in 1530 found a heir to their throne in the Princedom of orange (Oranien) to the Rhone. From 1533 to 1584 William I. of Orange led the Dutch in a battle against the Spanish rule as "Wilhelmus of Nassauwen". He is also remembered in history as of the founder of the netherlands independence. Both lines still hold today: the Ottonische line in the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Walramische line in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.