Limburg

Limburg is the district seat of Limburg Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. About 800 A.D., the primary castle buildings arose at the Limburg crags. This was likely designed for the safety of a ford over the river Lahn. In the many years that observed, the town advanced below the citadel's protection. Limburg is first cited in documents in 910 underneath the call of Lintpurc whilst Louis the Child granted Conrad Kurzbold an estate in the network on which he changed into to construct a church. Conrad Kurzbold laid the muse stone for Saint George's Monastery Church, in which he turned into additionally buried.

The community soon expanded in importance with the monastery's founding and profited from the lively goods alternate on the Via Publican. In 1150, a wood bridge becomes built across the Lahn. The lengthy distance avenue from Cologne to Frankfurt am Main eventually ran thru Limburg. In the early 13th century, Limburg Castle becomes built in its cutting edge form.