title: Schöffengrund
text: # Schöffengrund
  
  Schöffengrund is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Location
  
  Schöffengrund lies only a few kilometres south of Wetzlar in the Hochtaunus Nature Park.
  
  ### Neighbouring communities
  
  Schöffengrund borders in the north on the towns of Solms and Wetzlar, in the east on the community of Hüttenberg (all three in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis), in the southeast on the community of Langgöns (Gießen district), in the south on the community of Waldsolms, and in the west on the town of Braunfels (both in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).
  
  ### Constituent communities
  
  The community consists of the centres of Laufdorf, Niederquembach, Niederwetz, Oberquembach, Oberwetz and Schwalbach.
  
  ## History
  
  As part of Hesse's municipal reforms, the communities of Schwalbach, Laufdorf, Niederquembach, Niederwetz, Oberquembach and Oberwetz merged on 1 January 1972 and chose the historic name Schöffengrund, which does back to the old court region, the so-called "Quembacher Gericht", which was held at the "stone" near Oberquembach. This was where the Schöffen ("jurymen") from distinguished families in the villages that belonged to the court met for the court's sittings. Grund is German for "ground".
  
  ## Politics
  
  ### Municipal council
  
  The municipal elections in 2011 yielded the following results:
  
  | SPD | 8 seats |
  | - | - |
  | FWG | 11 seats |
  | CDU | 5 seats |
  | Greens | 5 seats |
  | UWG | 2 seats |
  
  Note: FWG and UWG are citizens' coalitions.
  
  ### Partnerships
  
  The community of Schöffengrund maintains partnerships with the following places:
  
  * Chauray in the département of Deux-Sèvres, France since 1990
  * Langewiesen, Thuringia since 1992.
  