Kölbingen
Kölbingen | |
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 Old Catholic parish church on the Schoenberg between Möllingen and Koelbingen | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Kölbingen
within Westerwaldkreis district
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 Location of Kölbingen | |
  Kölbingen  Kölbingen | |
| Coordinates: 50°33′13″N 7°56′09″E / 50.55361°N 7.93583°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
| Subdivisions | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Frank Schäfer[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.07 km2 (1.57 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 377 m (1,237 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,009 |
| • Density | 248/km2 (642/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56459 |
| Dialling codes | 02663 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.koelbingen.de |
Kölbingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]Location
[edit]Kölbingen lies roughly 4 km west of Westerburg, in a hollow between the Geisenwald and the Ruhscheid. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.
Constituent communities
[edit]Kölbingen's Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.
History
[edit]In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 16 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 26 May 2019.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]West of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt).
Kölbingen had a stop at the Cross Westerwald railway (Montabaur - Wallmerod - Westerburg - Rennerod - Herborn) which is out of service for passenger trains and deconstructed between Wallmerod and Westerburg, nowadays the nearest train station is Westerburg station.
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]- Kölbingen (in German)
- Kölbingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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