Untershausen

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Untershausen
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Untershausen
Untershausen (Germany)
Untershausen
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Montabaur
Mayor Siegfried Gilles
Basic statistics
Area 1.92 km² (0.7 sq mi)
Elevation 335 m  (1099 ft)
Population 523  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 272 /km² (706 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56412
Area code 02602
Website www.untershausen.de
Location of Untershausen within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°24′3″N 7°50′42″E / 50.40083, 7.845

Untershausen 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 south of Montabaur in the Nassau Nature Park. 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 1220, Untershausen had its first documentary mention as Bungelshausen.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

[edit] Coat of arms

The two red roses with green sepals and silver centres, with their Isenburg tinctures refer to the first documentary mention. The tinctures for law and wisdom, however, which the roses can also be said to have, recall the old Isenburg court’s jurisdiction. The silver roof with its noteworthy ridge turret stands in the red point for the old bakehouse of Untershausen. The three-leafed beech twig stands with its green tincture for the forest and the Untershausen municipal area.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt), some 7 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.

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