Lindenholzhausen (in local dialect "Hollesse") has been a borough (Ortsbezirk) of the Town of Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Germany since 1972.

[1] Lindenholzhausen has an average elevation of 170 metres above sea level and an area of 831.7 hectares (ha), making it the largest district of Limburg an der Lahn, the others being Ahlbach, Blumenrod, Dietkirchen, Eschhofen, Linter, Offheim and Staffel.

[citation needed] As if rendering homage to its distinguishing nature, a single lime/linden tree is depicted on the escutcheon of the village's coat of arms.

The village's current coat of arms is based on the justice court seal of 1486: in gold a stylized, green linden tree with roots.

[citation needed] Lindenholzhausen lies to the southeast of Limburg an der Lahn approximately three kilometres (1+7⁄8 miles) from town limits.

The Inter-City Express Station Limburg-Süd, which is located about half-way between Limburg an der Lahn and Lindenholzhausen and opened for operations on 1 August 2002, provides access to the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

Despite these convenient road and rail connections, Lindenholzhausen has managed to retain a predominantly rural character.

Although documented in 1323, it was first put to commercial use in 1894, when Baron August von Rottkay leased the spring from the parish of Lindenholzhausen, named it the Lubentiusbrunnen (Brunnen = spring, well), and sold its produce as "superb, savory and salubrious table and medicinal water" ("hervorragendes, wohlschmeckendes und bekömmliches Tafel- und Medicinal-Wasser").

Today, the spring is back in municipal possession and the citizens of Lindenholzhausen happily exercise their right to help themselves to "their" free mineral water.

Travellers of the day knew the time designated referred to a fully loaded cart being drawn by a single horse.

The 21-hour duration of the 105 km (65+5⁄8 mile) journey from Koblenz to Frankfurt (am Main) implies that the average speed of a fully loaded horse-drawn cart was between 4 and 6 km/h (2+1⁄2 and 3+3⁄4 mph).

In order to avoid laborious conversions between the different systems, the down-to-earth dimension of "average distance covered by a fully loaded horse-drawn cart per" hour was introduced, which was much more useful to the common traveller of the day.