Wahlrod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany .
4-459: The community lies in the northern Westerwaldkreis and borders on Altenkirchen district . Wahlrod belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg , a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town . In 1249, Wahlrod had its first documentary mention. The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, including the honorary mayor ( Bürgermeister ), who were elected in
8-639: A majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004. Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg . The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Dierdorf and Neuwied on the A ;3 ( Cologne – Frankfurt ), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line . This Westerwaldkreis location article
12-578: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Altenkirchen (district) Altenkirchen ( German pronunciation: [ˈaltn̩ˌkɪʁçn̩] ) is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the North Rhine-Westphalian districts Rhein-Sieg , Oberbergischer Kreis , Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein , and the districts of Westerwaldkreis and Neuwied . The history of
16-573: The district is linked with the Westerwald region. The district was established in 1816 by the Prussian administration. It combined the county of Wildenburg and the two counties of Sayn . The former had been part of Berg , the latter ones had belonged to the duchy of Nassau . The county used to be divided into nine mayoralties , including the Bürgermeisterei Weyerbusch . Altenkirchen
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