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Coat of arms of the local community Halbs
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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Westerburg
Height : 450 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.12 km 2
Residents: 355 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 167 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56457
Area code : 02663
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 233
Association administration address: Neumarkt 1
56457 Westerburg
Website : www.vg-westerburg.de
Local Mayor : Rudi Keßler
Location of the local community Halbs in the Westerwaldkreis
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Halbs is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Westerburg .

geography

Halbs is 3 km north of Westerburg on a hill in the middle of a forest and field area.

Neighboring towns are Ailertchen , Hergenroth and Stahlhofen am Wiesensee .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1270. Halbs belonged to the Westerburg rule until the beginning of the 19th century and came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 as the Rhine Confederation was formed under Napoleon . In 1813 Halbs came temporarily to the House of Orange-Nassau and, as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, to the Duchy of Nassau . Under the Nassau administration, the municipality of Halbs belonged to the lordship of Leiningen-Westerburg in the Rennerod office . In 1858 there were 41 families with 145 inhabitants in Halbs. In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau and with it Halbs became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

Population development

The development of the population of the municipality of Halbs, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 101
1835 138
1871 119
1905 161
1939 149
year Residents
1950 179
1961 181
1970 277
1987 284
2005 362

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Halbs consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Rudi Keßler became the local mayor of Halbs in July 1997. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 94.25% of the votes.

coat of arms

Halbs coat of arms
 Blazon : "Divided by gold and red by bars of seven silver edge cubes with a blue top, growing above a rooted, green, symmetrical oak shoot with three leaves and two acorns alternating, below within a growing, three-striped, silver, centrally tapered arc up to the division silver, looking bucket helmet with nose protection. "

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Web links

Commons : Halbs  collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research , Volume 10, 1870, p. 321 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1859 , p. 117 ( www.dilibri.de )
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ↑ Angela Baumeier: Around 50 residents on the WZ Thank You Tour: In Halbs, community is a top priority . In: Westerwälder Zeitung. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, November 3, 2017, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .