History
Lindenholzhausen was first documented in 772 as "Holzhusen", in a gift document to the monastery of Lorsch/Ried by the Robertinian Rachilde, which is dated August 12,772. By 1305 the villages of Rübsangen und Vele were incorporated in the district of Lindenholzhausen. By 1532 Lindenholzhausen had a population of 310. Being on the route between Cologne and Frankfurt and near the route between Mainz and Siegen, Lindenholzhausen suffered during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) from pillage, famine and plague. By 1697 the village had a population of 382. In 1750 a serious fire destroyed 93 buildings. Between 1768 and 1780 the trading route between Koblenz and Frankfurt (am Main) was built (now the B8). In 1801 another serious fire destroyed 63 smallholdings together with their harvested crops and left two thirds of the population homeless and destitute. Considering the entirety of its 1,235 years of existence, Lindenholzhausen has been rather uneventful from an international viewpoint.
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