Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate
Nassau is a town located in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies on the lower course of the Lahn River, on the mouth of the Mühlbach, between Limburg an der Lahn and the spa town of Bad Ems, and is located in the Nassau Nature Park, surrounded by the Westerwald to the north and the Taunus to the south. The town is on the German-Dutch holiday road, the Orange Route. As of 2021, it had a population of 4,592.
Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate
Nassau Castle—ancestral seat of the House of Nassau—above the Lahn valley. The lordship associated with Nassau Castle was the namesake of numerous other entities called "Nassau".
Nassau in Matthäus Merian's Topographia Hassiae, in 1655. The city with the two castles Nassau Castle and Stein Castle (de: Steinsche Burg, now only a ruin) on the other side of the Lahn.
Nassau city hall
The Lahn is a 245.6-kilometre-long (152.6 mi), right tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
Source of the Lahn at the Lahnhof
The confluence of the Wetschaft with the Lahn
The Upper Lahn Valley at Bad Laasphe from the Topographia Hassiae of Matthäus Merian, 1655
Heuchelheim Lake
