Wahlrod

Wahlrod is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hachenburg.

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the northern area of ​​the Westerwald district and adjacent to the County Old churches. Neighboring towns are Borod the northwest, Mudenbach and its Hanwerth district in the northeast, Winkelbach and Höchstenbach the southeast and Berod in the West. Highest points of the district are the collection behind the church and cemetery (299 m ) and Lauterbach ( 283 m).

To Wahlrod includes the residential places hammer mill, secret Hof and Marzauermühle.

History

1249 Wahlrod was first mentioned in a document. The place was formerly called Waldenrode and is probably named after a " Waldo ", who was abbot of the abbey Maximin in Trier and has donated the south of choice Roderwald now a ruin standing church Rossbach in the 9th century.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Wahlrod consists of twelve 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

The Coat of Arms description is: " split and split half; spill over the top front in silver with a black cross, down from red to silver by a top section of the silver field in the red box. In the right part of coat of arms a golden lion. It is available in red and is a left- rising, reinforced herschauender blue and gezungter '. Blue claws, a blue tongue and doppelgeschwänzt. "

Traffic

Directly through the town the B 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg runs. The nearest motorway junctions are in Dierdorf, Neuwied or on the A 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt ), about 25 kilometers away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

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