Heiligenroth
Holy Roth is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Montabaur.
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Geographical location
The village is about 3 km from Montabaur. Are the places Ruppach - Goldhausen, soil, Staudt, Wirzenborn and Großholbach in the vicinity.
History
Holy Roth was first documented in 1211. The word ending- red derived in this case most probably from the medieval forest clearance for the production of arable and pasture land from.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in the Holy Roth consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The approval of a coat of arms to lead was issued March 21, 1980 by the provincial government. On the crest of a red Watchtower with silver background and a golden lion can be seen on a blue background. The tower shown still stands today in the Holy Roth. Previously, he stood alone while away was a small chapel. It was not until 1782, the present church was built in the Romanesque tower. The tower was built as a defense tower, hence the loopholes and was until 1975 the civil parish, while the church of the parish belonged. Only then the property was transferred to the parish of the tower. Back in blue has a golden lion be displayed so that he looks into the field.
The choice of colors has Nassauer with the brief political affiliation with Nassau (1802 - 1866) to do less, but aims more at the geographical location of the Holy Roth, which is indeed still in the middle of the Nassau region, from. So begins in Heiligenroth the Nassau nature park, and also stationed in Montabaur Bundeswehr soldiers wore on the left sleeve of their uniform, the Nassau coat of arms, the golden lion on a blue field.
Economy and infrastructure
The town lies in the Westerwald south of the A 3, directly at the motorway junction Montabaur. The part of the municipality industrial area is separated from the village to the north of this highway. During the construction of the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main the place was protected by a noise barrier. The so-called industrial area is characterized mainly by the supply of the environment with the most service and shopping services such as supermarkets, hardware store, furniture store or gas stations. In addition, there are also manufacturing companies to find. At public institutions, there is a nursery, volunteer fire department, playgrounds, sports field with athletes home and beach volleyball court, parish hall, Vogelsang hall with bowling for large events, community management with youth room, four tennis courts with clubhouse, Catholic parish church.
Clubs
As clubs are active in the congregation of the women's choir, volunteer fire department, MGV hope mandolin club, Möhnen club, music club, volleyball club, sports club and the tennis club.