Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Area :	151.39 km 2
Residents:	40,130 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	265 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WW
Association key :	07 1 43 5004
Association structure:	25 municipalities
Association administration address :	Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8 56410 Montabaur
Website :	www.vg-montabaur.de
Mayor :	Hans Ulrich Richter-Hopprich ( CDU )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur in the Westerwaldkreis

Logo of the municipality of Montabaur

The Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional body in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality of the association includes the city ​​of Montabaur and 24 independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous city of Montabaur.

The municipalities of the Verbandsgemeinde are located in the southern Westerwald . With 40,130 inhabitants, it is one of the largest association communities in Rhineland-Palatinate and the largest in the Westerwaldkreis.

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
ground	2.30	584
Daubach	2.51	462
Eitelborn	7.10	2,440
Gackenbach	4.75	534
Girod	7.46	1,173
Goergeshausen	3.24	873
Großholbach	3.91	965
Heilberscheid	6.37	655
Heiligenroth	6.01	1,390
Holler	4.54	1.006
Horbach	3.94	658
Huebingen	3.56	530
Kadenbach	4.45	1,327
Montabaur , city	33.61	13,998
Nentershausen	7.54	1.997
Neuhäusel	1.67	2,034
Niederelbert	10.25	1,700
Niedererbach	4.43	1,023
Nomborn	4.00	719
Oberelbert	3.45	1,164
Ruppach-Goldhausen	4.41	1,257
Simmer	9.08	1,474
Stahlhofen	2.98	732
Untershausen	1.92	487
Welschneudorf	7.77	948
Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur	151.37	40,130

(Population figures as of December 31, 2019)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to today's area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

Population development in the Montabaur community from 1815 to 2018 according to the table below

year Residents 1815 10,433 1835 13,970 1871 15,551 1905 16,960 1939 19,905 1950 21,528 1961 24,166

year Residents 1970 28,902 1987 33,039 1997 38,289 2005 39,082 2017 39,392 2018 39,781

politics

Association municipal council

The Montabaur municipal council consists of 44 honorary council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman. In the 2019 election, the number of council members increased from 40 to 44.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	8th	17th	3	7th	9	44 seats
2014	10	19th	1	4th	6th	40 seats
2009	9	20th	2	3	6th	40 seats
2004	8th	21st	2	3	6th	40 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Montabaur e. V.

mayor

Ulrich Richter-Hopprich (CDU) became mayor of the Montabaur community on January 1, 2018. In the direct election on May 7, 2017, he was elected to this office for eight years with a share of the vote of 59.88%. Richter-Hopprich is the successor to Edmund Schaaf (CDU).

Local partnership

The Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur has officially maintained a partnership with the American city of Fredericksburg ( Texas ) since 1996 .

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council election 2019 Montabaur. Retrieved August 26, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
5. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur: Ulrich Richter-Hopprich sworn in as the new mayor. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct election 2017: Montabaur, VG. May 8, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .