District Westerwaldkreis Elevation 400 m (1,300 ft) Area 2.66 km² Postal code 56459 Dialling code 06435 | Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Local time Monday 5:01 AM Population 278 (31 Dec 2008) | |
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Weather 8°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 78% Humidity | ||
Weltersburg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Map of 56459 Weltersburg, Germany
Location
Weltersburg lies 4 km southeast 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-Pfalz. Its seat is in the like-named town.
Community council
The council is made up of 7 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Transport
South of the community runs Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.