Ruppach-Goldhausen
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| Ruppach-Goldhausen | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Montabaur |
| Mayor | Gerold Sprenger |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 4.41 km² (1.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 270 m (886 ft) |
| Population | 1,154 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 262 /km² (678 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | WW |
| Postal code | 56412 |
| Area code | 02602 |
| Website | www.vg-montabaur.de |
| Location of Ruppach-Goldhausen within Westerwaldkreis district | |
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Ruppach-Goldhausen 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 north of Montabaur on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. Through the community flows the Ahrbach. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.
[edit] History
In 1289, Goldhausen had its first documentary mention as Golthusen.
[edit] Amalgamations
The two communities of Ruppach and Goldhausen merged in 1969 in the course of administrative reform.
[edit] Politics
[edit] Community council
The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
[edit] Coat of arms
The upper part of the community’s arms represent the union of the coats of arms borne by the Lords of Reifenberg and the nobles of Nassau-Spurkenburg. Serving as the model for the arms’ design was the former court seal of Ruppach from 1596. The step-shaped lower part of the arms symbolizes clay quarrying and the wavy fess stands for the Ahrbach.
[edit] Economy and infrastructure
[edit] Transport
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stops are the railway stations at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line and Koblenz on the Rechte Rheinstrecke.
[edit] External links
This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
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