Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod

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Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod
Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod (Germany)
Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Wallmerod
Mayor Werner Türk
Basic statistics
Area 1.57 km² (0.6 sq mi)
Elevation 295 m  (968 ft)
Population 187  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 119 /km² (308 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WW
Postal code 56414
Area code 06435
Website www.wallmerod.de
Location of Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod within Westerwaldkreis district
Map

Coordinates: 50°28′34″N 7°55′25″E / 50.47611, 7.92361

Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is one of two communities named Zehnhausen in the Westerwaldkreis, the other being Zehnhausen bei Rennerod.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

[edit] History

In 1391, Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod had its first documentary mention as Zeenhußen.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Community council

The council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

[edit] Regular events

The Linden Blossom Festival (Lindenblütenfest) held every year on the first weekend in July has grown into an attraction for the whole local area.

[edit] Economy and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

To Bundesstraße 8, linking Limburg an der Lahn and Hennef, it is four kilometres. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt), some eleven kilometres away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

[edit] External links

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.