Mademühlen is a village in the municipality of Driedorf in the Westerwald hill region in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in the German state of Hesse. Its population was 885 on 30 June 2020, and its area is 8.88 km² (3.43 sq mi).[1]

Mademühlen
Ortsteil of Driedorf
Location of Mademühlen
Mademühlen Show map of Germany Mademühlen Show map of Hesse
Coordinates: 50°37′24″N 08°9′55″E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Municipality	Driedorf
Area
• Total	8.88 km2 (3.43 sq mi)
Elevation	596 m (1,955 ft)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	885
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	35759
Dialling codes	02775

Location

Mademühlen lies within the protected area of Hessian Westerwald (Hessischer Westerwald) and within the European network of such areas, Natura 2000.

The village is on the upper reaches of the Rehbach stream, between two reservoirs and owes its name to a number of mills which were established over the centuries on the upper course of the Rehbach. Around 1800 it was described as a rich farming village. A typical Westerwald farmhouse from Mademühlen is display in the Hessenpark Open Air Museum.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mademühlen.

• Mademühlen at the Driedorf website
• Mademühlen, Lahn-Dill-Kreis. Historisches Ortslexikon für Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• There is literature about Mademühlen in the Hessian Bibliography