The village is located in the Westerwald region between Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn right at the boundary between Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. Hundsangen is the biggest and also liveliest village in the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod. Leisure facilities are abundant because of the geographic circumstances. Transport opportunities to the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region and the Cologne/Bonn Region are well developed. Hundsangen offers its inhabitants a high quality of life. A bigger hill, the so-called "Ollmersch", is a well-known sight of Hundsangen. The village hall is named Ollmerschhalle because of this hill.
In 1096, Hundsangen had its first documentary mention as Hundeszagel. At Hundsangen’s graveyard, a Romanmedallion was found. Today it is found in the Nassau Antiquities Collection in Wiesbaden.
Politics
Community council
The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Culture and sightseeing
Music
Hundsangen has a church choir, a men’s singing club and a music club.
Buildings
The Baroque parish church of St. Goar was built in 1726. The Romanesque churchtower, however, comes from the 12th century.
Parks
In Hundsangen there are several heavily frequented forests, with, for example, an educational nature trail in the forestAm Buch and a barbecue pit in the Boschern forest.
Natural monuments
In the Boschern forest are some cliffs from the time when Hundsangen was still on the seabed. They contain valuable marble, which has already been reported in the press.
Sport
Football
Hundsangen’s first football team played for many years in the footballRheinlandliga.
Besides all the classic sport offerings, those with ambitions in sport can find various possibilities in the HSV, the localsport club.
Sport facilities
There are sporting grounds in the forest Am Buch with two football fields, and there is training in the main hall at the Ollmerschhalle. In the centre of Hundsangen, there is also a small football area. There is a shooting house in the Boschern forest.
Regular events
Hundsangen always holds its kermis in August, on the weekend after Assumption. Particularly impressive are the yearly Carnival events in this Westerwald community. Besides the Kappensitzungen held every year, the parade held every four years is a magnet for the public and draws tens of thousands of onlookers.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Right through the community runs Bundesstraße 8, linking Limburg an der Lahn and Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Diez, Limburg an der Lahn and Montabaur on the A 3, some 9 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stops are the railway stations at Montabaur and Limburg Süd on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The Rhine-Main and Cologne urban agglomerations are thereby easily reached.
The official medium for citizen information in Hundsangen is the collective municipality’s weekly gazette. The Ortsgemeinde also conducts an official homepage with current news and information about the village, a Twitter account and a Facebook page.
