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Location of Elsoff within Westerwaldkreis district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Rennerod |
| Mayor | Willi Halm |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 9.44 km2 (3.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 370 m (1214 ft) |
| Population | 930 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 99 /km2 (255 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | WW |
| Postal code | 56479 |
| Area code | 02664 |
| Website | www.elsoff.de |
Elsoff (Westerwald) is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen (35 km to the north), Wetzlar (28 km to the east) and Limburg an der Lahn (22 km to the south). Elsoff belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.
The council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
West of the community runs Bundesstraße 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.