Linden

Linden is one of three English names for the tree genus Tilia (also known as lime and basswood). Several of the common names for species within the Tilia genus have Linden in their names. They include:

Other trees include:

Linden may also refer to:

Places

Linden, Westerwaldkreis

Linden is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The village of Linden lies northnortheast of Koblenz between Hachenburg in the northnorthwest and Westerburg in the southeast, not far northeast of the Westerwald Lake Plateau. The community’s highest point is the Wildenhahn (496 m above sea level), which lies roughly 650 m northwest of Linden. Directly north of the village is found the source of the river Wied (an eastern tributary to the Rhine), which passes Linden just to the east, flowing south towards the Dreifelder Weiher (lake).

Linden belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

History

Like many communities in the Westerwald, Linden first arose as a clearing for field cultivation. Although it had its first documentary mention in 1586, it is believed that Linden already existed by about 1315.

Amalgamations

Linden, Schleswig-Holstein

Linden is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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