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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.11 km 2
Residents:	1901 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	234 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57648
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 300
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Kirburger Strasse 4 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website :	unnau.de
Mayoress :	Iris Wagner
Location of the local community Unnau in the Westerwaldkreis

Panorama of Unnau-Korb

Unnau is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen . The Great Nister flows through the community . The districts are Unnau with the Struthof residential area , Korb with the Nistersägewerk residential area and Stangenrod. Neighboring towns are Zinhain in the east, Hardt in the south, Nistertal in the south-west and Hachenburg in the north-west of Unnau.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in the year 1000.

On June 7, 1969, today's local community Unnau was formed from the previously independent communities Korb (282 inhabitants), Stangenrod (378 inhabitants) and Unnau (912 inhabitants).

Population development

The development of the population in relation to today's area of ​​the local community Unnau, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 532 1835 648 1871 702 1905 858 1939 1,067 1950 1,293 1961 1,353

year Residents 1970 1,579 1987 1,705 1997 1,881 2005 1,893 2011 1,885 2017 1,864

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Unnau consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Iris Wagner became local mayor of Unnau in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was able to prevail against the previous incumbent Ulrich Leukel with a share of 78.97% of the votes.

Leukel had held the office of mayor since 1999, his predecessor Manfred Franz from 1974 to 1999.

Culture and sights

• List of cultural monuments in Unnau
• List of natural monuments in Unnau

traffic

Unnau-Korb train stop

• The B 414 runs north of the village and leads from Hohenroth to Hachenburg . The next motorway junction is Haiger / Burbach on the A 45 ( Dortmund - Hanau ), about 24 kilometers away.
• Unnau is connected to the Oberwesterwaldbahn via the Unnau-Korb train station , on which the RB 90 trains from Siegen via Au (Sieg) , Altenkirchen , Hachenburg , Nistertal , Westerburg and Limburg an der Lahn to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle every day run every hour.
• At the Au (Sieg) train station there is a connection to the Rhein-Sieg-Express RSX trains, which operate as RE 9 from Aachen via Cologne , Siegburg / Bonn , Wissen (Sieg) and Betzdorf to Siegen and to the S-Bahn line 12, which runs from Düren via Cologne and Siegburg / Bonn to Au.

Web links

Commons : Unnau  - Collection of Images

• The local community of Unnau on the website of the Bad Marienberg community
• Portrait and report on the street In der Gasse in Unnau ( Memento from June 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )

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. 73 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ 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. 198 (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.  
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019
6. ↑ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Ex-milk queen is the new strong woman in Unnau. Westerwälder Zeitung, June 21, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved June 5, 2020 . 
8. ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community on May 26th. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Association administration: Manfred Franz receives VG seal coin. Unnau veteran honored with the highest award from the Bad Marienberg Association. In: Wäller Leaflets. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, issue 47/2016, November 25, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2020 .