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Härtlingen
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Location of Härtlingen within Westerwaldkreis district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
| Mayor | Martin Flügel |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 3.20 km2 (1.24 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 374 m (1227 ft) |
| Population | 422 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 132 /km2 (342 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | WW |
| Postal code | 56459 |
| Area code | 02663 |
| Website | www.haertlingen.de |
Härtlingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Härtlingen lies 5 km southwest of Westerburg in the Elbbach Valley. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.
Härtlingen has an outlying centre called Unterhärtlingen.
In 1292, Härtlingen had its first documentary mention as Hertlingen.
The council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
West of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. 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.