The old village is characterized by a large height differential, with housing plots situated on terraces formed by numerous retaining walls.

Excavations in the Basilica suggest that before the Church was constructed the site on the limestone bluff had been a pagan cult and gathering place.

The Reckenforst, a judicial meeting place which exercised high jurisdiction over the wider environs in at least in the Early Middle Ages, was nearby.

[3] In the history of the village, the Christianization of the Lahn region and the St. Lubentius basilica play a special role.

Its architecture is typical of the time, characterized by heavy members and generally cubic bulkiness, from which only the interior manages in places to break away.

The aspirations of the architecture and the quality of the interior decoration remind one today of the important role St. Lubentius played in church politics.

Its memorial book recorded its last entry in 1709, after the rest of the land chapters in the Archdeaconate had been dissolved in the Protestant Reformation.

Several members of the Frei family of Dehrn, a regionally important house of lower nobility, were buried at the church.

The historical market was renewed in 1991 at the initiative of then-mayor Kurt van der Burg and with the co-operation of all the clubs in the town.

In August 1916, the graveyard, which, together with the medical aid station, was located south of the road between Limburg and Dietkirchen, was expanded into a military cemetery.

On the feast of Pentecost, May 25, 1917, a three-meter-high Celtic cross was erected to commemorate the Irish who had died in the camp.

In 1923, all of the Russian dead and a Frenchman were exhumed and reinterred either in their homeland or at larger, central burial sites.

From the First World War, a total of about 330 Russians, 130 French, 60 Italians, 47 British, 45 Irish, seven Serbs, two Belgians and a Romanian are still buried at the cemetery.

By the end of World War II, the number of Russian and Soviet soldiers buried there increased to an estimated 945.

In 1959, at the site of the no-longer-maintained French monument, the city of Limburg erected a memorial stone for the Russian dead.

In 1971, within the framework of territorial reform in Hesse, Dietkirchen lost its independence and became the first of the surrounding villages to be incorporated into the City of Limburg.

Supported by funding from this program, several old agriculture buildings, particularly on Brunnenstraße and Limburgerstraße, were renovated and converted into homes.