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Kemmenau () is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. It belongs to the association community of Bad Ems-Nassau.

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German location.image_coa
DEU Kemmenau COA.svg
German location.image_photo
Kemmenau2.jpg
German location.image_plan
Kemmenau in EMS.svg
German location.state
Rheinland-Pfalz
German location.district
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
German location.Verbandsgemeinde
Bad Ems-Nassau
German location.elevation
382
German location.area
3.78
German location.postal_code
56132
German location.area_code
02603
German location.licence
EMS, DIZ, GOH
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
07 1 41 071
German location.website
www.kemmenau.de
German location.mayor
Norbert Jachtenfuchs
German location.leader_term
2019–24

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Kemmenau () is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. It belongs to the association community of Bad Ems-Nassau.

Although Kemmenau is already mentioned in 1320, and is maybe even some centuries older, the village became a municipality only between 1816 and 1821. The greater part had previously belonged to Bad Ems, the smaller part to nearby Dausenau. Also remarkable are the prehistoric traces discoverable immediately behind the village, the still easily recognizable Roman Limes and a prehistoric circular entrenchment on the 'First'. The name of the town derives, perhaps, from "Kemmenate", which would refer to a fortified house on the old road from Bad Ems into the Westerwald.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kemmenau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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