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Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ' N , 7 ° 43' E |
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State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Westerwaldkreis | |
Association municipality : | Hachenburg | |
Height : | 290 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 6 km 2 | |
Residents: | 867 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 145 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 57614 | |
Area code : | 02680 | |
License plate : | WW | |
Community key : | 07 1 43 301 | |
Association administration address: | Gartenstrasse 11 57627 Hachenburg |
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Mayoress : | Sandra Dörner | |
Location of the local community Wahlrod in the Westerwaldkreis | ||
Wahlrod is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .
Geographical location
The community is located in the northern part of the Westerwaldkreis and borders the Altenkirchen district . Neighboring places are Borod in the northwest, Mudenbach and its district Hanwerth in the northeast, Winkelbach and Höchstenbach in the southeast and Berod in the west. The highest points of the district are the elevation behind the church and cemetery ( 299 m above sea level ) and the Lauterbach ( 283 m above sea level ).
Wahlrod also includes the Hammermühle, Hehlinger Hof and Marzauer Mühle residential areas .
history
Wahlrod was first mentioned in a document in 1249 . The place was formerly called Waldenrode and is probably named after a "Waldo" who was the abbot of Maximin Abbey in Trier and who in the 9th century donated the Roßbach church, south of Wahlroder Wald, now in ruins .
- Population development
The development of the population of Wahlrod, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Wahlrod consists of twelve 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
Sandra Dörner became local mayor of Wahlrod on July 29, 2019. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, she prevailed against the previous incumbent with a share of the vote of 52.53%, after none of the original five applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.
Dörner's predecessors since 2011 were Klaus Schmidtgen, and before that Eberhard Dineiger, who had given up the office for professional reasons.
coat of arms
Blazon : “Half divided and split; at the top in front a black cross in silver, at the bottom from red over silver through a point cut from the silver field to extend into the red field. In the back part of the coat of arms a golden lion. He is in red and is 'a left-handed, blue-armed and tongue-tongued man'. Blue claws, a blue tongue and double-tailed. " | |
traffic
The B 8 , which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg , runs directly through the village . The next motorway junctions are in Dierdorf , or Neuwied on the A 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt am Main ), about 25 kilometers away. The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .
See also
literature
- Willi H. Grün : Wahlrod. A reading book for western forests on the 750th anniversary of the village. Wahlrod 1999, ISBN 3-00-003971-6 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the local community Wahlrod
- Local community Wahlrod on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ On denominational development cf. Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 74 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ The remarks on the medieval history of the Westerwald are taken from the book Hermann-Josef Roth: Der Westerwald, DuMont, 1981.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ↑ Inform: Meeting of the new municipal council. Invitation. In: INFORM - weekly newspaper of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg, edition 30/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, 31st line of results. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
- ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Primary elections in the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg. Westerwälder Zeitung, April 30, 2019, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Wahlroder elect Klaus Schmidtgen as local mayor. Westerwälder Zeitung, September 4, 2011, accessed on June 8, 2020 .