District Westerwaldkreis Elevation 267 m (876 ft) Area 10.13 km² Local time Tuesday 6:30 PM Dialling code 02602 | Municipal assoc. Wirges Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Population 5,119 (31 Dec 2008) Postal code 56422 Team SpVgg EGC Wirges | |
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Wirges is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Contents
- Map of Wirges Germany
- Location
- Town council
- Coat of arms
- Town partnerships
- Transport
- Sport and culture
- Sons and daughters of the town
- References
Map of Wirges, Germany
Location
Wirges lies in a high hollow in the further Westerwald between Köppel and Malberg, roughly 5 km northwest of Montabaur and 20 km northeast of Koblenz. It was granted town rights in 1975. Wirges is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality. The people of Wirges call themselves Wirgeser.
Town council
The council is made up of 22 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (Stadtbürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Allocation of seats in the municipal council:
Coat of arms
The escutcheon has the shape of a late Gothic round shield with horizontal upper edge and sides meeting it at right angles. The town’s arms are those once borne in days of yore by the Widergis noble family, whose seat was in Wirges.
Town partnerships
Wirges has partnership arrangements with these places:
Transport
East of the town runs Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Rennerod. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is at Montabaur station on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The town lies on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn) from Limburg to Siershahn.
Sport and culture
SpVgg EGC Wirges’ first team plays in the football Oberliga Südwest; the A-youth have reached the Regionalliga Süd. The men’s second team play in the Rheinlandliga.
Furthermore, Wirges has several choirs, a band and a music club.