Westerwaldkreis
The Westerwald district is a 1974 arising by fusion of the circles Unterwesterwald circle and Oberwesterwald county district in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate.
It is bordered on the southwest by the districts of Mayen -Koblenz and on the district- free city Koblenz, in the west by the district of Neuwied, in the north- west and north to the county old churches (Westerwald ), on the northeast by the North Rhine- Westphalian district of Siegen -Wittgenstein, in the east to the Hessian counties Lahn- dill-Kreis and Limburg -Weilburg, and on the south by the Rhein-Lahn -Kreis.
- 4.1 Rail transport
- 4.2 Highways
Geography
The Westerwald district extends north-east of Koblenz on the Westerwald. He is relatively sparsely populated. Larger rivers are the Nister, the Wied and the Sayn, but leave just a few kilometers to the source of the district area.
History
The current county area was divided into many pre-1800 dominions, of which the Electorate of Trier and the Principality of Nassau- Orange had the largest shares. After that, the area came from 1806/1815 to the Duchy of Nassau. 1866 this was annexed by Prussia. Then the three counties Unterwesterwald circle (sitting in Montabaur ) emerged Oberwesterwald circuit ( based in Bad Marienberg ) and Westerburg. 1932, the northern part of the district Westerburg was affiliated with the City of Westerburg the Oberwesterwald circle whose county seat was moved from Bad Marienberg to Westerburg. The southern part of the district Westerburg came to the Unterwesterwald circle. The circles were part of the district Wiesbaden the province of Hesse-Nassau. 1946 both counties came to Rhineland-Palatinate and were there first to the governmental district Montabaur. After its dissolution in 1968 both groups were assigned to the Region of Koblenz. As part of the district reform in both circuits to March 16, 1974 were pooled for today Westerwald region ( with the exception of Arzbach, which today is part of the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis, and Stromberg, now part of Bendorf in the district of Mayen -Koblenz ).
Policy
Council
The council of the Westerwald district consists of 50 elected district council members and the district administration as chairman. In the elections for district council on June 7, 2009, the following vote resulted:
Coat of arms
Description:
Argent, a green sloping beams; growing below seven silver edged, hexagonal black basalt columns of different heights, above a cylindrical, old German blue jug with silver flutes and three oval silver medallions (Coat - approval February 2, 1976 ).
Meaning:
The seven basalt pillars represent the seven federation communities in which basalt and quartz occurs while the pot with the three medallions, the three unitary councils of the so-called Kannenbacker country symbolizes, where the craft of pottery and ceramic industry are located. The green slanted bar represents the recreational value of the circle with its forests and meadows.
Traffic
Rail transport
The traffic remote area of the Westerwald was opened only at the end of the 19th century railway lines, the - were built by the Prussian state railways - with one small train. Since 2002, the Westerwald is connected by the ICE train station Montabaur at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main to the rail network.
In 1884 the sub Westerwaldbahn of Limburg on Montabaur was opened after the Old churches of the Siershahn in a line to the Passengers on the Rhine teed, the BTA in a turn-off to Hatton of Hausen received, which was until 1911 extended until Hillscheid. The second route of Limburg by Old churches over Hadamar - Westerburg was only two years later - in 1886 - put into operation.
From Herborn in the Lahn -Dill district led in 1906 a branch line to Rennerod, reaching 1907 Westerburg. In it also led a 1911 opened railway line Erbach missing- Ritzhausen that branched from the upper Westerwaldbahn Old Church Westerburg Limburg.
The eastern north-south route in 1910 was connected with the western parallel section by the railway line Westerburg - Montabaur.
Another cross-connection had been created in 1901 by the narrow gauge railway in train -AG seltzer Hachenburg.
The city Hatton of Hausen received in 1907 - along with an extension in 1910 - by the Coblenzer Tramway Company, an electric interurban line to Vallendar on the Rhine; this was in 1941 replaced by a trolleybus.
From the railway network from 1911 - ie without the 25 km new railway line - 185 km included, only 66 km are traveled by passenger trains today. This traffic was taken over by the Vectus traffic mbH end of 2004.
Settings of passenger transport:
Highways
By the district the federal highways lead 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt ) and 48 ( Montabaur -Koblenz ). Furthermore, the district area is served by several federal highways, including the B 8, B 49, B 54, B 255, B 413 and B 414
Beginning of the 21st century, efforts were made to better bind the Westerwald region of the motorway network. The discussed under the name " Westerwald motorway " route would have the A 48 is connected at Dernbach with the A 45 at Freudenberg and thus in particular greatly improved the traffic situation in the municipality Hachenburg and district of Old churches. Nevertheless, the Westerwald motorway was not realized due to significant protest.
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Association of communities with their member municipalities:
( The seat of the municipality *)
- 2 municipality Hachenburg
- 3 municipality Hatton of Hausen
- 4 municipality Montabaur
- 5 municipality Ransbach -Baumbach
- 6 municipality Rennerod
- 7 municipality seltzer (Westerwald )
- 8 municipality Wallmerod
- 9 municipality Westerburg
- List of districts in the Westerwald district