Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate

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Bellingen
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Bellingen
Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)
Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Westerburg
Mayor Gerhard Kornab
Basic statistics
Area 4.29 km² (1.7 sq mi)
Elevation 430 m  (1411 ft)
Population 591  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 138 /km² (357 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56459
Area code 02663
Website www.bellingen.de
Location of Bellingen within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°35′31″N 7°54′25″E / 50.59194, 7.90694

Bellingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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[edit] Geografie

[edit] Geografische Lage

Bellingen lies in a hollow northwest of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 8 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

[edit] External links

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.