Winkelbach
Winkelbach | |
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Coat of arms of Winkelbach Coat of arms | |
Location of Winkelbach
within Westerwaldkreis district | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Hachenburg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Eckhard Biehl[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.34 km2 (0.52 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 302 m (991 ft) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 57644 |
| Dialling codes | 02680 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.hachenburg-vg.de |
Winkelbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit | edit source]The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen in the upper Wied valley. Through the community flows the Wied. Winkelbach belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
History
[edit | edit source]In 1262, Winkelbach had its first documentary mention. [citation needed]
Politics
[edit | edit source]The municipal council is made up of 9 council members, including the honorary mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit | edit source]Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 8, which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Dierdorf and Neuwied on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 25 km away.
Winkelbach was connected to the public rail transport though a station on the Selters-Hachenburg narrow gauge railway, which already has been closed and deconstructed.
The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Winkelbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
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