Weltersburg
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Weltersburg | |
Coat of arms | Location |
Administration | |
Country | Germany |
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State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Westerwaldkreis |
Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
Mayor | Gisela Benten |
Basic statistics | |
Area | 2.66 km² (1 sq mi) |
Elevation | 400 m (1312 ft) |
Population | 274 (31/12/2006) |
- Density | 103 /km² (267 /sq mi) |
Other information | |
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
Licence plate | WW |
Postal code | 56459 |
Area code | 06435 |
Website | www.weltersburg.de |
Location of Weltersburg within Westerwaldkreis district | |
Weltersburg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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[edit] Geography
[edit] Location
Weltersburg lies 4 km southeast of Westerburg. 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.
[edit] Politics
[edit] Community council
The council is made up of 7 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
South of the community runs Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). 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.