Roßbach, Westerwaldkreis

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Roßbach
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Roßbach
Roßbach, Westerwaldkreis (Germany)
Roßbach, Westerwaldkreis
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Hachenburg
Mayor Wilfried Oettgen
Basic statistics
Area 7.47 km² (2.9 sq mi)
Elevation 300 m  (984 ft)
Population 906  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 121 /km² (314 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56271
Area code 02680
Website www.rossbach-ww.de
Location of Roßbach within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°36′21″N 7°41′0″E / 50.60583, 7.68333

Roßbach (or Rossbach) 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 between Hachenburg and Dierdorf. The residential community of Roßbach belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

SPD CDU Wählergemeinschaft Total
2004 5 3 4 12 seats

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

Roßbach lies west of Bundesstraße 413 from Bendorf (near Koblenz) to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Dierdorf on the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt). 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.