Dreifelden is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The name translates literally to English as „three fields“.
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 Plateau (Westerwälder Seenplatte), the Dreifelder Weiher. The Verbandsgemeinde to which the community belongs has its seat in the like-named town.
In 1319, Dreifelden had its first documentary mention.
In the center of the village stands the Threebendchurch, the oldest stone church of the Westerwald. The beginnings reach until the soon romanic times around the year 1000 back, whereby the church up until the Reformation time was used as walldrive-church.
The council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal…