Hergenroth

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Westerburg
Height :	394 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.89 km 2
Residents:	421 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	223 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56457
Area code :	02663
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 238
Association administration address:	Neumarkt 1 56457 Westerburg
Website :	www.vg-westerburg.de
Mayoress :	Nina Podelski
Location of the local community Hergenroth in the Westerwaldkreis

Hergenroth is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Westerburg .

geography

Hergenroth is two kilometers north of Westerburg. The Marienhöhe residential area also belongs to Hergenroth . In the southeastern municipal area the Seebach flows into the Schafbach

history

The place was first mentioned in the year 879 when it was donated by Count Gebhard im Lahngau to the St. Severus monastery in Gemünden .

Hergenroth belonged to the Westerburg rule and came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 as the Rhine Confederation was formed under Napoleon . In 1813 Hergenroth 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, Hergenroth belonged to the lordship of Leiningen-Westerburg in the Rennerod office . In 1858, 50 families with 182 inhabitants lived in Hergenroth. In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau and with it Hergenroth came to the Kingdom of Prussia .

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Hergenroth

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 159 1835 206 1871 152 1905 176 1939 254

year Residents 1950 257 1961 262 1970 316 1987 346 2005 453

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Nina Podelski-Otte became mayor of Hergenroth in June 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office for another five years with 96.35% of the votes.

Podelski-Otte's predecessor as local mayor was Bernd Schäfer.

traffic

• The B 255 runs north of the community and runs from Montabaur to Herborn .
• The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the A3 .
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .
• From 1906 to 1959, Hergenroth had a direct rail connection through the Herborn – Montabaur line ( Westerwaldquerbahn ) in passenger traffic and in freight traffic until 1967 . Today parts of the line have been dismantled, but are to be reactivated and rebuilt for tourist purposes by the IG Westerwaldquerbahn.

Web links

Commons : Hergenroth  - Collection of Images

• Local community Hergenroth on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 81 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research , Volume 10, 1870, p. 321 ( Google Books )
4. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1859 , p. 117 ( www.dilibri.de )
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ ^{a b} Hergenroth local council. Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg, accessed on July 12, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .