sentences:  The municipality lies in the eastern Hunsrück nestled within a greenbelt of woodland and meadowland, roughly 3 km southeast of Emmelshausen, right on "Schinderhannes-Radweg" (cycle path).Norath's name comes from the old word "rod", from the same stem as the German verb "roden", meaning “clear (woods, trees)”.When early settlers began to move into the Hunsrück seeking new lands for living and raising crops, they at first settled at the place now known as Hungenroth, some 10 km west of Sankt Goar on the Hunsrück heights.