Lautzenbrücken

Lautzenbrücken ( dialect: Lautzebrick ) is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Marienberg (Westerwald ).

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and victories.

Quarters are Lautzenbrücken, Hohensayn and iron -pit.

History

In 1262 the church was first mentioned as Luytzebrucke.

The development of the population of Lautzenbrücken, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Lautzenbrücken consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

Argent, a blue oblique wave beams; below the center covered by a solid black bridge with flat arched opening; top left of a black -stemmed, green tree group of two spruce and a deciduous tree, 2-1 inside the other; bottom right of a group of three growing offset lined up against each other, to the right descending, black basalt columns with a hexagonal cross-section.

The location of the village on the small Nister is symbolized by the blue wave beams. The bridge refers to the base word in place names. The other symbols of the emblem symbolize the rich basalt deposits and the extensive forests in Lautzenbrücken. The coat of arms was created by the heraldist Albert Meinhardt on the basis of a draft of the Municipal Council and approved on 19 October 1981 by the Government of President Heinz Korbach.

Culture and sights

→ see the list of cultural monuments in Lautzenbrücken

Traffic

• South of the town, the B 414, which runs from Driedorf- Hohenroth after Hachenburg runs.
• The nearest motorway junctions are in Siegen or Wilnsdorf on the A45 Dortmund - Hanau, about 20 kilometers away.
• The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.