Luckenbach

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Luckenbach
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Luckenbach
Luckenbach (Germany)
Luckenbach
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Hachenburg
Mayor Karl-Heinz Kaiser
Basic statistics
Area 3.61 km² (1.4 sq mi)
Elevation 290 m  (951 ft)
Population 627  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 174 /km² (450 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 57629
Area code 02662
Website www.hachenburg-vg.de
Location of Luckenbach within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°42′20″N 7°50′5″E / 50.70556, 7.83472

Luckenbach 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 village lies northeast of Koblenz in the valley of the Kleine Nister. Luckenbach belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate.

[edit] History

In 1366, Luckenbach had its first documentary mention.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), 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 Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Herborn on the A 45 (DortmundGießen), some 25 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.