# Kemmenau

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{{Infobox German location
|image_coa             = DEU Kemmenau COA.svg
|image_photo        = Kemmenau2.jpg
|coordinates        = {{coord|50|20|52|N|7|45|3|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Kemmenau in EMS.svg
|state         = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district          = Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
|Verbandsgemeinde   = Bad Ems-Nassau
|elevation               = 382
|area             = 3.78
|postal_code                = 56132
|area_code            = 02603
|licence                = EMS, DIZ, GOH
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 41 071
|website           = [http://www.kemmenau.de/ www.kemmenau.de]
|mayor             = Norbert Jachtenfuchs<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1410000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 5 August 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
|party             =
}}

'''Kemmenau''' ({{IPA|de|ˈkɛmənaʊ}}) is a municipality in the [district of Rhein-Lahn](/source/Rhein-Lahn), in the [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), in western [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [association community of Bad Ems-Nassau.](/source/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](/source/Bad_Ems), the smaller part to nearby [Dausenau](/source/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. 
<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.bad-ems.de/vg_bad_ems/Stadt%20und%20Ortsgemeinden/Kemmenau/Zur%20Geschichte |title=VG Bad Ems - zur Geschichte |access-date=2011-06-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002173054/http://www.bad-ems.de/vg_bad_ems/Stadt%20und%20Ortsgemeinden/Kemmenau/Zur%20Geschichte/ |archive-date=2011-10-02 }}</ref>

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