Weltersburg

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Weltersburg
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Weltersburg
Weltersburg (Germany)
Weltersburg
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
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
Map

Coordinates: 50°31′24″N 7°57′38″E / 50.52333, 7.96056

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 (CologneFrankfurt). 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.