Halbs
Halbs | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Halbs
within Westerwaldkreis district
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| Location of Halbs | |
  Halbs  Halbs | |
| Coordinates: 50°35′27″N 7°57′53″E / 50.59083°N 7.96472°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Rudi Keßler[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.12 km2 (0.82 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 450 m (1,480 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 357 |
| • Density | 168/km2 (436/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56457 |
| Dialling codes | 02663 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.westerburger-land.de |
Halbs is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]Location
[edit]Halbs lies 3 km north of Westerburg on a bank in the middle of a wooded and field area. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.
Neighbouring communities
[edit]Bordering on Halbs are Ailertchen, Hergenroth and Stahlhofen am Wiesensee.
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]North of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). Halbs also had a stop at the Cross Westerwald railway (Montabaur - Wallmerod - Westerburg - Rennerod - Herborn) which is out of service for passenger trains, today the nearest accessibility to train service is Westerburg station at the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway (RB90). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
References
[edit]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2023" (in German). Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
External links
[edit]- Halbs in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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