Kölbingen

Kölbingen
Old parish church on the Schönberg
Coat of arms
Kölbingen
Location of Kölbingen within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates: 50°33′13″N 7°56′09″E / 50.55361°N 7.93583°E / 50.55361; 7.93583Coordinates: 50°33′13″N 7°56′09″E / 50.55361°N 7.93583°E / 50.55361; 7.93583
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Westerburg
Government
• Mayor	Frank Schäfer
Area
• Total	4.07 km2 (1.57 sq mi)
Elevation	377 m (1,237 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	1,033
• Density	250/km2 (660/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56459
Dialling codes	02663
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.koelbingen.de

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

Geography

Location

Kölbingen lies roughly 4 km west of Westerburg, in a hollow between the Geisenwald and the Ruhscheid. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Constituent communities

Kölbingen’s Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.

History

In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

West of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

External links

• Kölbingen (in German)
• Kölbingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)