Dreifelden
Dreifelden is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The name translates literally to English as "three fields".
Geography
On the southern boundary of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg – a kind of collective municipality – in the northwest Westerwaldkreis lies Dreifelden, on the biggest lake found on the Westerwald Lake District, the Dreifelder Weiher. The Verbandsgemeinde to which the municipality belongs has its seat in the eponymous town.History
Dreifelden was first recorded in 1319.In the centre of the village stands Holy Trinity Church, the oldest stone church in the Westerwald. Its origins go back to the Romanesque era around 1000 A.D. Until the Reformation it was used as pilgrimage church.