Girod

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Coat of arms of the local community Girod
Girod
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Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Montabaur
Height : 265 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.46 km 2
Residents: 1173 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 157 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56412
Area code : 06485
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 021
LOCODE : DE GIR
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8
56410 Montabaur
Website : www.vg-montabaur.de
Local Mayor : Hans-Jürgen Herbst
Location of the local community Girod in the Westerwaldkreis
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Girod is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Montabaur community .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen am Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park .

Kleinholbach is a district of Girod. The two villages are by the A 3 separately.

history

Girod was first mentioned in a document in 1235.

Today's community was created on June 7, 1969 through a new formation from the previously independent communities Girod (595 inhabitants) and Kleinholbach (326 inhabitants).

Population development

The development of the population in relation to the current area of ​​the local community Girod, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 437
1835 529
1871 578
1905 652
1939 827
year Residents
1950 845
1961 851
1970 984
1987 973
2005 1230

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Girod consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Hans-Jürgen Herbst became the local mayor of Girod in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office as local mayor for another five years with a vote of 77.93%.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split of red and gold and divided by a wavy bar that is silver at the front and blue at the back, a slantingly crossed, overturned silver key with a quatrefoil with a sword of the same type, topped with a silver scallop shell, at the bottom a three-step silver staircase growing from the edge of the shield, on the left above a five-spoke blue mill wheel, below a blue heart-shaped hoe blade. "

The two coat of arms fields red and gold stand for the districts Girod and Kleinholbach. The coat of arms colors red and silver for Kurtrier on the right and blue and gold for the Duchy of Nassau on the left symbolize the former sovereigns. The attributes of the patron saints of the churches of Girod (St. Jakobus) and Kleinholbach (St. Peter and Paul) are shown as crossed keys and swords for St. Peter and Paul and the shell for St. James and are thus symbolic of both districts . The wave bar stands for the Eisenbach flowing through both districts. The five-spoke mill wheel represents five well-known water mills on its banks. The heart-shaped leaf of a hoe symbolizes the place name Girod, which suggests clearing . The three stages describe the "step-shaped" clay mining, the "white Westerwald gold", in the place.

Culture and sights

traffic

Girod has a stop on the Unterwesterwaldbahn Siershahn  - Wirges  - Montabaur  - Elz Süd - Diez Ost - Limburg an der Lahn , which is operated every hour by the trains of the RB 29 line of the Hessian State Railway HLB, Dreiländerbahn area, according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle is served. In addition, Girod and the Kleinholbach district are connected to the bus route 450 (Montabaur - Nentershausen - Diez - Limburg) operated by the Rhein-Mosel-Bus company . The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) has also applied in the Westerwaldkreis since January 1, 2017 .

In the late evening hours as well as on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, outside the regular bus service times, Girod is also connected to public transport by the shared taxi line 8410 (Montabaur - Girod - Nentershausen - Görgeshausen).

The nearest motorway junctions are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 Cologne  - Frankfurt am Main , each about five kilometers away.

Web links

Commons : Girod  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 177 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  5. ↑ Annual review 2009. Hans-Jürgen Herbst - New local mayor of Girod. Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur, 2010, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .