Oberrod

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Oberrod

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Oberrod
Coordinates: 50°35′6″N 8°7′38″E / 50.58500°N 8.12722°E / 50.58500; 8.12722Coordinates: 50°35′6″N 8°7′38″E / 50.58500°N 8.12722°E / 50.58500; 8.12722
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Rennerod
Government
  Mayor Klaus Laube
Area
  Total 6.72 km2 (2.59 sq mi)
Elevation 430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (2012-12-31)[1]
  Total 689
  Density 100/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 56479
Dialling codes 02664
Vehicle registration WW
Website www.rennerod.de

Oberrod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald on the boundary with Hesse. The nearest sizeable towns are Siegen (34 km to the north), Wetzlar (27 km to the east) and Limburg an der Lahn (24 km to the south). Through the community flows the Lasterbach. Oberrod belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Politics

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.

Regular events

One of the oldest clubs is the Schützenverein St. Hubertus 1910 Oberrod e.V. (shooting club). Each year at Whitsun the club stages a three-day shooting festival.

A further highlight is the so-called Backes- und Brunnenfest (“Bakehouse and Well Festival”), which takes place from 18 to 20 August at the village well. To eat there is, among other things, the so-called "Flappeskuchen", which is baked in the traditional way in a quaint woodburning oven.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

East of the community runs Bundesstraße 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn on the A 45 (DortmundHanau), some 23 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

  1. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2012". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2013. 

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