Rothenbach

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Rothenbach
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Rothenbach (Germany)
Rothenbach
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Westerburg
Local subdivisions 2
Mayor Axel Huber
Basic statistics
Area 6.72 km² (2.6 sq mi)
Elevation 465 m  (1526 ft)
Population 902  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 134 /km² (348 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56459
Area code 02663
Website www.westerburger-land.de
Location of Rothenbach within Westerwaldkreis district
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Coordinates: 50°33′51″N 7°54′12″E / 50.56417, 7.90333

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

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Rothenbach lies 8 km west 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. Its seat is in the like-named town.

[edit] Constituent communities

Rothenbach’s Ortsteile are Obersayn and Himburg.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

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

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

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

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