Salzburg, Germany

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Salzburg
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Salzburg
Salzburg, Germany (Germany)
Salzburg, Germany
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Rennerod
Mayor Harald Menk
Basic statistics
Area 2.30 km² (0.9 sq mi)
Elevation 600 m  (1969 ft)
Population 218  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 95 /km² (245 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56479
Area code 02667
Website www.rennerod.de
Location of Salzburg within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°40′5″N 8°2′53″E / 50.66806, 8.04806

Salzburg 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 Siegen and Limburg. Salzburg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

[edit] History

About 1300, Salzburg had its first documentary mention as Salberg.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

Right near the community, two Bundesstraßen, 54 linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, and 414 leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg cross each other. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn 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.

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