Maxsain is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The community lies between the district seat of Montabaur und Hachenburg. It lies on a brook, the Saynbach, which is joined in the middle of the village by its tributary the Steinchesbach. The nearest town is Selters, 3 km away. The community is part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality.
The community of Maxsain consists of the centres of Maxsain and Zürbach, which lies some 3 km to the east of the main centre and has about 60 inhabitants. The centre was amalgamated into the community of Maxsain with administrative reform in 1974. Worth seeing are the Evangelical church and the Backes community house in the village centre.
In 1194, Maxsain had its first documentary mention. The name’s spelling changed over the centuries from Machseine to Maxeine and then Makeseyne. In 1972, in the course of municipal restructuring, the…