Westerwaldkreis

	Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 52' E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative headquarters :	Montabaur
Area :	988.95 km 2
Residents:	201.904 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	204 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WW
Circle key :	07 1 43
NUTS :	DEB1B
Circle structure:	192 parishes
Address of the ; district administration:	Peter-Altmeier-Platz 1 ; 56410 Montabaur
Website :	www.westerwaldkreis.de
District Administrator :	Achim Schwickert ( CDU )
Location of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate

The Westerwaldkreis is a regional authority in northern Rhineland-Palatinate and lies between Cologne / Bonn and the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region . The town of Montabaur is the seat of the district administration and at the same time the most populous municipality . The district was created in 1974 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional and administrative reform from the simultaneously dissolved districts of Unterwesterwaldkreis (based in Montabaur) and Oberwesterwaldkreis (based in Westerburg ).

geography

The area of the Westerwaldkreis was calculated in 2014 according to the district administration of the Westerwaldkreis as 988.97 and according to the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate as 988.98 square kilometers. The north-south extension is 44 kilometers and the west-east extension 40 kilometers. The highest point is the Fuchskaute at 657 m above sea level. NN , the lowest point at 150 m is in the Gelbachtal below Dies , a district of Gackenbach .

location

The Westerwaldkreis is located in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, not far from the border triangle with Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia . The district extends over the Westerwald northeast of Koblenz . It is relatively sparsely populated. Larger rivers are the Nister , the Wied and the Sayn , which, however, leave the district area just a few kilometers after the source.

climate

The Westerwald , despite its relatively low altitude for a typical low mountain bracing climate . The average annual temperature is between 6.5 and 8.5 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall is between 780 and 1300 millimeters. Around 40 percent of the district is forested.

Neighboring areas

The Westerwaldkreis borders in a clockwise direction in the northeast on the Siegen-Wittgenstein district (in North Rhine-Westphalia ), the Lahn-Dill district and the Limburg-Weilburg district (both in Hesse ) as well as the Rhein-Lahn district , to the Independent city of Koblenz and the districts of Mayen-Koblenz , Neuwied and Altenkirchen (Westerwald) (all in Rhineland-Palatinate).

history

Before 1800, today's district was divided into numerous rulers, of which the Electorate of Trier and the Principality of Nassau-Orange had the largest shares. After that, the area came to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806/1815 and in 1866 it was annexed by Prussia . Then the three districts of Unterwesterwaldkreis (seat in Montabaur), Oberwesterwaldkreis (seat in Bad Marienberg ) and Westerburg were created . In 1932 the northern part of the Westerburg district with the city of Westerburg was incorporated into the Oberwesterwaldkreis, the district seat of which was moved from Bad Marienberg to Westerburg. The southern part of the Westerburg district came to the Unterwesterwaldkreis. The districts belonged to the Wiesbaden administrative district of the Hesse-Nassau province . On August 30, 1946, both districts came to Rhineland-Palatinate and initially belonged to the administrative district of Montabaur . After its dissolution in 1968, both districts were assigned to the Koblenz administrative district. In 1970 Marienhausen moved from the Unterwesterwaldkreis to the Neuwied district and Berod bei Hachenburg from the Oberwesterwaldkreis to the Altenkirchen district. As part of the district reform , both districts were merged on March 16, 1974 to form the Westerwald district, which was given its current name on August 1, 1974 (with the exception of Arzbach , which is now part of the Rhein-Lahn district , and Stromberg, today a district of Bendorf in the Mayen-Koblenz district ).

Nassau offices from 1816 in today's district area
Prussian districts 1867/1886 to 1932 in today's district area
Prussian or Rhineland-Palatinate districts 1932 to 1974 in today's district area
Association communities in today's district

population

year	Residents	source
1975	165,800
1980	167,700
1990	178,100
2000	201,800
2010	198,580
2018	201,597

The residents are generally considered Westerwald called, the locals call themselves Wäller or basalt Koeppe , as they are considered stubborn and in a very basalt live rich region. As of December 31, 2019, the Westerwaldkreis had 201,904 inhabitants. The population density on the reference date was 204 inhabitants per square kilometer. At the end of 2013 there were more women (50.5 percent) than men (49.5 percent) in the district. At 32.5 percent, the old-age quotient slightly exceeds the youth quotient (32.1 percent).

The proportion of foreigners (registered residents without German citizenship ) was 6.2 percent on December 31, 2013 (12,263 people). The most strongly represented nationalities are primarily Turkish , Polish , Italian , Kosovar , Russian , Bulgarian , Bosnian and Herzegovinian , Romanian , Dutch and Croatian .

In March 2015, the district recorded an unemployment rate of 4.2 percent (4651 people).

politics

Distribution of seats in the
district assembly of the Westerwaldkreis 2019

A total of 50 seats

Left : 2
Greens : 7
SPD : 10
FWG : 6
FDP : 3
CDU : 18
AfD : 4

The district building in Montabaur is the seat of the district administration

Politically, the Westerwaldkreis is conservative . This can also be seen in the dominant position of the CDU, which is by far the strongest force and continues to provide the district administrator after successful re-election in 2017. In the 2019 district election, however, like the SPD, it suffered significant losses. The winners of the election are the AfD, who appeared for the first time, as well as the Greens and FDP, which corresponds to the general state trend in the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate.

District council

The district council of the Westerwaldkreis consists of 50 honorary district council members elected in a personalized proportional representation and the district administrator as chairman. After the last district election on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution of seats results:

year	SPD	CDU	AfD	FDP	Green	left	FWG	NPD	total
2019	10	18th	4th	3	7th	2	6th	-	50
2014	14th	22nd	-	2	4th	2	6th	-	50
2009	15th	21st	-	4th	3	1	5	1	50
2004	14th	26th	-	2	3	-	5	-	50
1999	18th	24	-	2	2	-	4th	-	50

Free voter group Westerwald (FWG) e. V.

Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system in local elections ( personalized proportional representation ), the percentage of votes shown in the graphic are shown as “weighted results” that can only represent the voting behavior arithmetically.

District Administrator

Achim Schwickert (CDU) has held the position of district administrator since October 11, 2009; in the district election on May 7, 2017, he was confirmed in office for a further eight years with 88.87% of the votes. The district administrator is also the head of the authority and the chairman of the district board, chairman of the district council and external representative of the district. Representatives of the district council include the members of the district executive, Kurt Schüler (first district member) as well as Ulrich Keßler and Thomas Roth (both district members).

Former district administrators

1974–1984: Norbert Heinen
1985–2009: Peter Paul Weinert

District administration

The district administration of the Westerwald district consists of three departments with and nine departments (one as a self-propelled ). Numerous sections and specialist areas are subordinate to the departments .

badges and flags

Hoist flag
Banner flag

The Westerwaldkreis has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .

Blazon : “In silver, a green sloping bar; Growing below seven silver-edged, hexagonal black basalt columns of different heights, above a cylindrical, old German blue jug with silver ribs and three oval silver medallions. "

Justification for the coat of arms: The seven basalt columns stand for the seven association communities in which basalt and quartz occur, while the jug with the three medallions symbolizes the three association communities of the so-called Kannenbäckerland , which is home to the pottery and the ceramic industry. The green sloping bar symbolizes the recreational value of the district with its forests and meadows.

The coat of arms was approved on February 2, 1976.

economy

In terms of nominal gross domestic product, the Westerwaldkreis is one of the economically strongest districts in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2010 the district generated a nominal 5.4 billion euros - this is the highest rate in all Rhineland-Palatinate districts. The city of Montabaur and the Wallmerod community each have the highest per capita purchasing power in the district and their values are higher the national average.

In 2012 around 29,000 people commuted to work beyond the Westerwaldkreis, while around 17,000 people commuted to work in the district. The majority of those employees who left the district mainly went to Koblenz, the Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg and the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) . The commuters come in particular from the districts of Altenkirchen, Neuwied and the Rhein-Lahn district .

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Westerwaldkreis ranked 215th out of 402 rural districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 217 out of 401.

traffic

Rail transport

An ICE 3 passes Montabaur station without stopping .

The traffic-remote area of the Westerwald was only opened up at the end of the 19th century by railway lines that - with the exception of a small railway - were built by the Prussian State Railway . Since 2002, the Westerwald has been connected to the national and international long-distance transport network through the Montabaur train station on the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main with a few stops. The ICE connects the Limburg Süd train station in the southeast , the Frankfurt airport long-distance train station and the Frankfurt main train station . In the opposite direction of the ICE connects the Siegburg / Bonn station , the Cologne Main Station and the Köln Messe / Deutz station and Brussels .

In 1884 the Unterwesterwaldbahn was opened from Limburg via Montabaur to Altenkirchen, from which a line branched off in Siershahn to Engers am Rhein, which in Grenzau received a branch to Höhr-Grenzhausen, which was only extended to Hillscheid in 1911. The second line from Limburg to Altenkirchen via Hadamar –Westerburg was put into operation only two years later - in 1886.

From 1906 a branch line ran from Herborn in the Lahn-Dill district to Rennerod and in 1907 it reached Westerburg. The Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen railway, which opened in 1911 and branched off from the Oberwesterwaldbahn Altenkirchen – Westerburg – Limburg, also ran into it.

The eastern north-south line was connected to the western parallel line in 1910 by the Westerburg – Montabaur railway line.

Another cross-connection had already been created in 1901 by the narrow-gauge line of the Kleinbahn-AG Selters-Hachenburg .

In 1907 the town of Höhr-Grenzhausen received - along with an extension in 1910 - an electric overland line to Vallendar on the Rhine from the Coblenz tram company ; this was replaced by a trolleybus in 1941 .

Of the railway network, which from 1911 - i.e. excluding the 25 km new line - comprised around 185 km, today only 66 km are used by passenger trains. This traffic was taken over by the Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft at the end of 2004 . The transport contract with the former transport company Vectus ended with the timetable change in December 2014. From December 2014, the Hessische Landesbahn , Dreiländerbahn operating area , took over the transport services on the RB 29 (Unterwesterwaldbahn) and on the RB 90 (Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn), which were used for the timetable change 2015 was extended from Au (Sieg) über Wissen and Betzdorf to Siegen . The Au an der Sieg station is an important transfer station for travelers from the Oberwesterwald in the direction of Bonn, Cologne and Aachen, this is where the S12 line of the Cologne S-Bahn (Düren - Horrem - Cologne - Siegburg / Bonn - Herchen - Au) ends (Sieg)), the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) runs from Au (Sieg) to Siegen and in the opposite direction to Siegburg / Bonn train station , to Cologne, Düren and Aachen.

Since January 1, 2017, the Westerwaldkreis has been applying the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) for bus and train tickets .

Passenger traffic settings:

1950: Herschbach - Hachenburg 19 km (meter gauge)
1959: Herborn - Rehe - Rennerod 6 km (Westerwaldquerbahn)
1960: Selters - Herschbach 5 km (meter gauge)
1971: Fehl-Ritzhausen - Bad Marienberg - Erbach 12 km
1972: Grenzau - Höhr-Grenzhausen - Hillscheid 7 km
1981: Rennerod - Fehl-Ritzhausen - Westerburg 17 km ( Westerwaldquerbahn )
1981: Montabaur - Wallmerod - Westerburg 26 km (Westerwaldquerbahn)
1984: Siershahn - Selters - Altenkirchen 40 km (of which 12 km in the Westerwaldkreis) ( Holzbachtalbahn )
1989: Engers - Grenzau - Siershahn 28 km (15 km of which in the Westerwaldkreis) ( Brexbachtalbahn )

Trunk roads

The federal highways 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt am Main ) and the 48 (Koblenz – Montabaur) run through the district . In addition, the district is accessed by several federal highways, including the B 8 , B 49 , B 54 , B 255 , B 413 and B 414 .

At the beginning of the 21st century, efforts were made to better connect the Westerwaldkreis to the motorway network. The route discussed under the name “Westerwaldautobahn” would have connected the A 48 near Dernbach with the A 45 near Freudenberg , thereby significantly improving the traffic situation in the Hachenburg community and the Altenkirchen district . Nevertheless, the Westerwald motorway was not realized due to considerable protests.

Administrative structure

The Westerwaldkreis comprises ten association communities with 192 local communities . The largest municipality is the city of Montabaur with 13,998 inhabitants, the smallest local municipality is Heuzert with 118 inhabitants.

Map: Municipalities of the Westerwaldkreis

Association municipalities

Association municipality	Population (December 31, 2019)
Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)	19,358
Hachenburg	24,285
Höhr-Grenzhausen	13,433
Montabaur	40,130
Ransbach-Baumbach	15,024
Rennerod	16,745
Selters (Westerwald)	16,150
Wallmerod	14,587
Westerburg	22,670
Wirges	19,522

Local parishes

The administrative offices of the municipalities are marked with an asterisk (*).

Local parish	Population (December 31, 2019)	Association municipality
Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) , city *	6,098	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Boelsberg	217	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Dreisbach	570	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Fehl-Ritzhausen	766	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Large soaps	634	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Hahn near Marienberg	477	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Hardt	456	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
court	1,196	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Kirburg	580	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Langenbach near Kirburg	1,080	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Lautzenbrücken	432	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Mörlen	527	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Neunkhausen	1,021	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Nisterau	821	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Nesting valley	1,192	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Norken	946	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Stockhausen-Illfurth	444	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Imprecise	1,901	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Alpenrod	1,579	Hachenburg
Aster	224	Hachenburg
Atzel poison	607	Hachenburg
Borod	506	Hachenburg
Dreifelden	250	Hachenburg
Gehlert	614	Hachenburg
Giesenhausen	322	Hachenburg
Hachenburg , city *	6.122	Hachenburg
Hatters	1,748	Hachenburg
Heimborn	259	Hachenburg
Hay concert	118	Hachenburg
Höchstenbach	697	Hachenburg
Kroppach	689	Hachenburg
Kundert	253	Hachenburg
Limbach	416	Hachenburg
Linden trees	143	Hachenburg
Lochum	321	Hachenburg
Luckenbach	656	Hachenburg
Marzhausen	254	Hachenburg
Merkelbach	419	Hachenburg
Mörsbach	434	Hachenburg
Mudenbach	713	Hachenburg
Mündersbach	770	Hachenburg
Müschenbach	990	Hachenburg
Nest	1,050	Hachenburg
Rossbach	826	Hachenburg
Steinebach on the Wied	836	Hachenburg
Stein-Wingert	238	Hachenburg
Arguing houses	501	Hachenburg
Voting rod	867	Hachenburg
Welkenbach	142	Hachenburg
Wied	486	Hachenburg
Winkelbach	235	Hachenburg
Hilgert	1,507	Höhr-Grenzhausen
Hillscheid	2,426	Höhr-Grenzhausen
Höhr-Grenzhausen , City *	9,261	Höhr-Grenzhausen
Kammerforst	239	Höhr-Grenzhausen
ground	584	Montabaur
Daubach	462	Montabaur
Eitelborn	2,440	Montabaur
Gackenbach	534	Montabaur
Girod	1,173	Montabaur
Goergeshausen	873	Montabaur
Großholbach	965	Montabaur
Heilberscheid	655	Montabaur
Heiligenroth	1,390	Montabaur
Holler	1.006	Montabaur
Horbach	658	Montabaur
Huebingen	530	Montabaur
Kadenbach	1,327	Montabaur
Montabaur , city *	13,998	Montabaur
Nentershausen	1.997	Montabaur
Neuhäusel	2,034	Montabaur
Niederelbert	1,700	Montabaur
Niedererbach	1,023	Montabaur
Nomborn	719	Montabaur
Oberelbert	1,164	Montabaur
Ruppach-Goldhausen	1,257	Montabaur
Simmer	1,474	Montabaur
Stahlhofen	732	Montabaur
Untershausen	487	Montabaur
Welschneudorf	948	Montabaur
Alsbach	636	Ransbach-Baumbach
Breitenau	704	Ransbach-Baumbach
Caan	705	Ransbach-Baumbach
Deesen	668	Ransbach-Baumbach
Hundsdorf	435	Ransbach-Baumbach
Nauort	2,209	Ransbach-Baumbach
Oberhaid	389	Ransbach-Baumbach
Ransbach-Baumbach , City *	7,783	Ransbach-Baumbach
Sessenbach	503	Ransbach-Baumbach
Wirscheid	329	Ransbach-Baumbach
Wittgert	663	Ransbach-Baumbach
Board houses	200	Rennerod
Elsoff (Westerwald)	910	Rennerod
Hellenhahn-Schellenberg	1,217	Rennerod
Homberg (Westerwald)	176	Rennerod
Hüblingen	295	Rennerod
Irmtraut	767	Rennerod
Love divorce	834	Rennerod
Neunkirchen (Westerwald)	544	Rennerod
Neustadt / Westerwald	577	Rennerod
Niederroßbach	686	Rennerod
Nister-Möhrendorf	298	Rennerod
Oberrod	651	Rennerod
Oberroßbach	351	Rennerod
deer	964	Rennerod
Rennerod , city *	4,398	Rennerod
Salzburg	221	Rennerod
Seck	1,150	Rennerod
Stein-Neukirch	408	Rennerod
Waigandshain	198	Rennerod
Forest mills	336	Rennerod
Western ear	909	Rennerod
Willingen (Westerwald)	271	Rennerod
Zehnhausen near Rennerod	384	Rennerod
Ellenhausen	285	Selters (Westerwald)
Ewighausen	233	Selters (Westerwald)
Freilingen	669	Selters (Westerwald)
Freirachdorf	626	Selters (Westerwald)
Goddert	452	Selters (Westerwald)
Hartenfels	774	Selters (Westerwald)
Herschbach	2,800	Selters (Westerwald)
Crumbs	319	Selters (Westerwald)
Marienrachdorf	984	Selters (Westerwald)
Maroth	255	Selters (Westerwald)
Maxsain	1,060	Selters (Westerwald)
Nordhofen	532	Selters (Westerwald)
Quirnbach	484	Selters (Westerwald)
Rückeroth	487	Selters (Westerwald)
Schenkelberg	642	Selters (Westerwald)
Selters (Westerwald) , city *	2,814	Selters (Westerwald)
Sessenhausen	893	Selters (Westerwald)
Stones	241	Selters (Westerwald)
Vielbach	541	Selters (Westerwald)
Willow cock	571	Selters (Westerwald)
Wolferlingen	488	Selters (Westerwald)
Arnshöfen	147	Wallmerod
Berod near Wallmerod	542	Wallmerod
Bilkheim	482	Wallmerod
Three churches	1.014	Wallmerod
Elbingen	324	Wallmerod
Ettinghausen	327	Wallmerod
Hahn am See	393	Wallmerod
Herschbach (Oberwesterwald)	893	Wallmerod
Dog chants	2,056	Wallmerod
Cow farms	165	Wallmerod
Moravia	206	Wallmerod
Meudt	1,895	Wallmerod
Molsberg	460	Wallmerod
Niederahr	817	Wallmerod
Oberahr	537	Wallmerod
Obererbach	489	Wallmerod
salt	835	Wallmerod
Stone frenzy	796	Wallmerod
Wallmerod *	1,438	Wallmerod
Weroth	586	Wallmerod
Zehnhausen near Wallmerod	185	Wallmerod
Ailertchen	594	Westerburg
Bellingen	600	Westerburg
Berzhahn	494	Westerburg
Brandscheid	476	Westerburg
Enspel	267	Westerburg
Gemünden	984	Westerburg
Girkenroth	600	Westerburg
Peep home	939	Westerburg
Half	355	Westerburg
Härtlingen	375	Westerburg
Hergenroth	421	Westerburg
Heck	3,018	Westerburg
Kaden	581	Westerburg
Koelbingen	1.009	Westerburg
Langenhahn	1,394	Westerburg
Pottum	1,056	Westerburg
Rotenhain	519	Westerburg
Rothenbach	907	Westerburg
Stahlhofen am Wiesensee	334	Westerburg
Stockum puffs	639	Westerburg
Weltersburg	310	Westerburg
Westerburg , City *	5,657	Westerburg
Willmenrod	656	Westerburg
Win	485	Westerburg
Bannberscheid	656	Wirges
Dernbach (Westerwald)	2,473	Wirges
Boar cock	1,252	Wirges
Helferskirchen	1,208	Wirges
Leuterod	838	Wirges
Mogendorf	1,286	Wirges
Moschheim	718	Wirges
Niedersayn	161	Wirges
Ötzingen	1,381	Wirges
Siershahn	2,887	Wirges
Staudt	1,242	Wirges
Wirges , city *	5,420	Wirges

For lists on the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate .

License Plate

On August 1, 1974, the district was assigned the distinctive sign MT , which had been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Unterwesterwaldkreis . It was derived from the district town of Montabaur. In 1976, today's distinguishing mark WW was introduced, which is still the only mark issued to this day.

The district administration of the Westerwaldkreis vehemently rejects the reintroduction of the old license plates MT (Montabaur or Unterwesterwaldkreis) and WEB (Westerburg or Oberwesterwaldkreis), because the district administrator sees "the WW license plate as a strong sign of identification with the entire region". A reintroduction would, according to District Administrator Schwickert, "open up the old rifts between the former Oberwesterwaldkreis (WEB) and the former Unterwesterwaldkreis (MT)".

Web links

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Official website of the Westerwaldkreis
Statistical data of the Westerwaldkreis at the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
Literature about the Westerwaldkreis in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Westerwaldkreis in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

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↑ ^a ^b ^c My district, my independent city - Westerwaldkreis. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on April 21, 2015 .

↑ Westerwald. Ministry of Economy, Climate Protection, Energy and State Planning Rhineland-Palatinate , accessed on April 21, 2015 .

↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1977

↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981

↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992

↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002

↑ The Westerwald - home for travelers. Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), accessed on April 19, 2015 .

↑ Reporting month March 2015 - Westerwaldkreis. Central statistics service of the Federal Employment Agency , accessed on April 19, 2015 .

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Westerwaldkreis. Final result of the 2019 district council election. Accessed August 10, 2019 .

↑ Explanation by the Land Returning Officer on the "Weighted Result"

↑ District administration of the Westerwaldkreis: District election 2017. in the Westerwaldkreis. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .

↑ Dr. Birgit Hübbers: Rhineland-Palatinate regional: Westerwaldkreis. (PDF; 213 kB ) State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate , accessed on April 19, 2015 .

↑ Statistics for the Westerwaldkreis: In Montabaur the purchasing power is highest. Rhein-Zeitung , October 17, 2013, accessed on April 21, 2015 .

↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .

↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .

↑ Westerwaldkreis joins community tariff. District council makes important decision. In: westerwaldkreis.de. District administration of the Westerwaldkreis, July 14, 2016, accessed on July 16, 2016 .

↑ Nature conservation in Rhineland-Palatinate. (No longer available online.) NABU - Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V., archived from the original on December 13, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2015 .