Kölbingen
Kölbingen | |
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![]() Old Catholic parish church on the Schoenberg between Möllingen and Koelbingen | |
Coordinates: 50°33′13″N 7°56′09″E / 50.55361°N 7.93583°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Westerwaldkreis |
Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
Subdivisions | 3 |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Frank Schäfer[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 4.07 km2 (1.57 sq mi) |
Elevation | 377 m (1,237 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 989 |
• Density | 240/km2 (630/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 56459 |
Dialling codes | 02663 |
Vehicle registration | WW |
Website | www.koelbingen.de |
Kölbingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]Location
[edit]Kölbingen lies roughly 4 km west of Westerburg, in a hollow between the Geisenwald and the Ruhscheid. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.
Constituent communities
[edit]Kölbingen's Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.
History
[edit]In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 16 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 26 May 2019.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]West of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
References
[edit]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
External links
[edit]- Kölbingen (in German)
- Kölbingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)