Lautzenbrücken

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Lautzenbrücken
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Lautzenbrücken (Germany)
Lautzenbrücken
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Local subdivisions 2
Mayor Kai Kober
Basic statistics
Area 4.28 km² (1.7 sq mi)
Elevation 501 m  (1644 ft)
Population 393  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 92 /km² (238 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56472
Area code 02661
Website Gemeinde Lautzenbrücken
Location of Lautzenbrücken within Westerwaldkreis district
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Coordinates: 50°40′25″N 7°57′52″E / 50.67361, 7.96444

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

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. Lautzenbrücken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

[edit] Constituent communities

Lautzenbrücken has two outlying centres named Hohensayn und Eisenkaute.

[edit] History

In 1262, Lautzenbrücken had its first documentary mention as Luytzebrucke.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Driedorf-Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen and Wilnsdorf on the A 45 (DortmundHanau), some 20 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

[edit] External links

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.