Oberelbert is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Oberelbert lies roughly 5 km south of Montabaur in the Nassau Nature Park on the Stelzenbach.

Sometime before 1200, in the municipal area (Bann) of the village of Humbach (Montabaur), the Archbishop of Trier owned, among other things, a Wildhube (a fief that required the holder to protect Imperial hunting rights) at Elewartin.

In 1233 there was a dispute between members of the St. Florin Monastery at Koblenz involving the use of the Pfaffenholz Forest near Elewarthe.

In 1362 came a documentary mention of Niederelbert (inferiori Elewarten), which suggests that there must have been an Oberelbert by this time, too (Nieder– is German for “nether” or “lower”, while Ober– means “upper”).

In 1519, the Archbishop of Trier transferred half the Elbert landlordship to the Lords of Nassau (at the Sporkenburg, which was a castle) as a fief.

In 1795, the villagers brought their livestock to the Metternicher Heck (paddock) before the plundering French Revolutionary Army could steal the animals.

Between 1813 and 1815, scattered French soldiers on their way back home from Russia brought typhus to the village.

The church is symbolized by the old neat flèche as a small belltower with black “sound windows” below in a red field.

Fischbach/Rhön, Thuringia Also known as Fischbach bei Bad Salzungen, this community is a small village in the Rhön near Kaltennordheim.