Liebenscheid is an Ortsgemeinde â a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde â in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg on the boundaries with North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. Liebenscheid belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.
Liebenscheid has two outlying centres named WeiÃÂenberg and Löhnfeld.
In 1341, Liebenscheid had its first documentary mention in a partition treaty between the sons of Count Johann I of Nassau-Dillenburg. At this time there also stood Schloss Liebenscheid, a residential castle, which was later taken down.
In 1360, Liebenscheid, together with the neighbouring village of WeiÃÂenberg, was granted town rights by Emperor Karl IV, whereby the Emperor bestowed upon the two places the same rights that the Imperial town of Wetzlar held.
The municipal council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in municipal elections.
West of the community runs BundesstraÃÂe 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg), some 11 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The nearest air travel connection is offered by the Siegerland Airport lying a few kilometres west of the community.