Rotenhain

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Rotenhain
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Rotenhain
Rotenhain (Germany)
Rotenhain
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Westerburg
Mayor Hubertus Limbach
Basic statistics
Area 4.10 km² (1.6 sq mi)
Elevation 465 m  (1526 ft)
Population 554  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 135 /km² (350 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56459
Area code 02661
Website www.rotenhain.de
Location of Rotenhain within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°36′3″N 7°52′57″E / 50.60083, 7.8825

Rotenhain is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Rotenhain lies 9 km southwest of Westerburg.

[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

Southwest of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt). Rotenhain lies on the Oberwesterwaldbahn (railway) to Limburg and Au (Sieg). From there, the cities of Cologne, Koblenz, Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden may be reached directly. 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.