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Coat of arms of the local community Weidenhahn
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Map of Germany, position of the community Weidenhahn highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Selters (Westerwald)
Height : 380 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.23 km 2
Residents: 571 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 177 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56244
Area code : 02666
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 305
Association administration address: Am Saynbach 5–7
56242 Selters (Westerwald)
Website : www.weidenhahn.de
Local Mayor : Frank Eulberg
Location of the local community Weidenhahn in the Westerwaldkreis
map
The center of Weidenhahn
Catholic Church

Weidenhahn (dialect: Wäirehohn ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Selters (Westerwald) .

geography

Weidenhahn is located in the Westerwald between Hachenburg in the north, Westerburg in the east, Montabaur in the south and the Selters located about six kilometers west-southwest at the confluence of the Weidenbach and Steinchesbach rivers. It is located a little south-southeast of the Westerwald lakes plateau.

About two kilometers northeast of the village, there has been an observation tower on the Helleberg ( 491  m above sea  level ) since 1998 with a view of the Westerwald, among other things.

history

Weidenhahn was first mentioned in documents around 1200 under the name Weidenhagen . Other names over the years are: Weidenhayn , Wedinhane , Weidinhan , Weidenhayn and Weidenhahn .

politics

Municipal council

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

In the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the local council was elected in a personalized proportional representation. The twelve seats were divided between two groups of voters .

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Frank Eulberg was confirmed in office for another five years with 89.14 percent of the votes cast.

badges and flags

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Weidenhahn
 Blazon : "In blue a golden archway with seven stones, raised by a silver shovel, this accompanied by two golden willow branches, under the arch a silver key crossed with a silver sword."

The coat of arms was approved for the local community on November 11, 1991.

flag

On December 4, 2014, the local church was approved a flag. The flag is cross-striped as a banner, hanging flag and vertical flag, the left and right flag hem is blue-white-blue-yellow-blue-white-blue in the ratio 4: 4: 100: 34: 47: 5.5: 5.5, dividing the yellow flag stripe (34) in the form of a bricked yellow arch, above a white ploughshare over two yellow willow branches (1: 2), below crossed white keys and sword, flag length to flag width as 200 to 100.

traffic

See also

Web links

Commons : Willow cock  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Hermann-Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortsneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, page 18 (PDF; 132 kB)
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, direct elections
  6. ↑ Alexander Hoffmann: Communal coat of arms show . In: Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences (Hrsg.): Der Herold, quarterly journal for heraldry, genealogy and allied sciences . No. 3-4 / 2018 . Self-published, Berlin.