Editing Limburg an der Lahn (section)

==Geography==

===Location===
[[File:Lahn limburg.jpg|thumb|left|The river Lahn in Limburg]]
Limburg lies in western Hesse between the [[Taunus]] and the [[Westerwald]] on the river [[Lahn]].

The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the [[Rheinisches Schiefergebirge|Rhenish Slate Mountains]] which is surrounded by the low ranges of the Taunus and Westerwald and called the [[Limburg Basin]] (''Limburger Becken''). Owing to the favourable soil and climate, the Limburg Basin stands as one of Hesse's richest agricultural regions and moreover, with its convenient Lahn crossing, it has been of great importance to transport since the [[Middle Ages]]. Within the basin, the Lahn's otherwise rather narrow lower valley broadens out noticeably, making Limburg's mean elevation only 117&nbsp;m above sea level.

===Neighbouring communities===
Limburg forms, together with the town of [[Diez, Germany|Diez]], a middle centre (in terms of [[Central place theory]]) but partially functions as an upper centre to western [[Middle Hesse]].

Limburg's residential neighbourhoods reach beyond the town limits; the neighbouring centres of [[Elz, Hesse|Elz]] and Diez run seamlessly together.

Surrounding towns and communities are the community of Elz and the town of [[Hadamar]] in the north, the community of [[Beselich]] in the northeast, the town of [[Runkel]] in the east, the communities of [[Villmar]] and [[Brechen]] in the southeast, the community of [[Hünfelden]] in the south (all in Limburg-Weilburg), the community of [[Holzheim, Rhineland-Palatinate|Holzheim]] in the southwest, and the town of Diez and the communities of [[Aull, Germany|Aull]] and [[Gückingen]] in the west (all in the [[Rhein-Lahn-Kreis]] in Rhineland-Palatinate).

The nearest major cities are [[Wetzlar]] and [[Gießen]] to the north east, [[Wiesbaden]] and [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]] to the south and [[Koblenz]] to the west.

===Constituent communities===
[[File:Karte-Limburg-Stadtteile.png|thumb|200px|Map of Limburg and its constituent communities]]
The town consists of eight formerly autonomous ''[[Ortsbezirk]]e'' or boroughs, listed here by population (as of 2020):<ref>[https://www.limburg.de/media/custom/3252_1586_1.PDF?1623223692 Hauptsatzung der Kreisstadt Limburg a. d. Lahn], § 3, 25 May 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.limburg.de/Rathaus-Leben/Stadtportrait/Limburg-in-Zahlen.php?object=tx,3251.5&ModID=7&FID=3252.574.1&NavID=3252.33&La=1 Limburg in Zahlen], Stadt Limburg. Retrieved on 2 November 2022.</ref>

# Limburg: 19,401
# [[Lindenholzhausen]]: 3,315
# [[Linter (Limburg an der Lahn)|Linter]]: 3,080
# [[Eschhofen]]: 2,789
# [[Staffel (Limburg an der Lahn)|Staffel]]: 2,762
# [[Offheim]]: 2,608
# [[Dietkirchen]]: 1,630
# [[Ahlbach]]: 1,252

Each ''Ortsbezirk'' is represented by a council. Blumenrod is also often called a constituent community, although this is actually only a big residential neighbourhood in the main town's south end. Its landmark is the ''Domäne Blumenrod'', a former manor house that has been restored and remodelled by the Limburg Free Evangelical community.

Limburg's biggest outlying centre is Lindenholzhausen (3,315 residents as of June 2020); the second biggest is Linter.