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Coat of arms of the local community Wahlrod
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Map of Germany, position of the municipality Wahlrod highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E

Basic data
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
Website : www.wahlrod.de
Mayoress : Sandra Dörner
Location of the local community Wahlrod in the Westerwaldkreis
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Wahlrod, aerial photo (2016)
Evangelical Church in Wahlrod

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:

year Residents
1815 285
1835 382
1871 424
1905 486
1939 558
1950 657
year Residents
1961 661
1970 687
1987 738
1997 897
2005 897
2019 867

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

Wahlrod 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

Web links

Commons : Wahlrod  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ The remarks on the medieval history of the Westerwald are taken from the book Hermann-Josef Roth: Der Westerwald, DuMont, 1981.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. ↑ 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 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, 31st line of results. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  9. ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Primary elections in the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg. Westerwälder Zeitung, April 30, 2019, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Wahlroder elect Klaus Schmidtgen as local mayor. Westerwälder Zeitung, September 4, 2011, accessed on June 8, 2020 .