Dill, Germany
municipality in Germany
Dill (German pronunciation: [dɪl] ) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town, and it is home to a castle ruin that bears the same name.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück in the Dillerbach valley, which cuts some 30 m into the Hunsrück plateau as it flows along a bow round a mountain spur upon which sits the castle. Parts of the village also stretch across the spur's south slope and the saddle, which links the spur to the plateau to the east. Two kilometres to the village's east, the Sohrbach empties into the Kyrbach. Through the north of the municipal area runs the old Roman road, the so-called Via Ausonia (or Ausoniusstraße in German).
History
Dill's first confirmed documentary mention comes from 1107, when Adalbert, comes (“Count”) de Dille appeared as one of the witnesses in the founding document of Springiersbach Monastery. This was Adalbert II, Count of Mörsberg and Dill (b. about 1070; d. 30 August 1125) from the comital family of Nellenburg, who lived on Lake Constance’s western shores.
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