Wied, Rhineland-Palatinate

Wied (German pronunciation: [viːt] ⓘ) is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen in the Wied valley.

Wied belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Originally, Wied was called Wiede, which meant something like “grazing land” (Weide in modern German).

The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.