Kölbingen | |
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 Old Catholic parish church on the Schoenberg between Möllingen and Koelbingen | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Kölbingen within Westerwaldkreis district  | |
  Kölbingen  Kölbingen | |
| 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.
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.
Kölbingen's Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.
In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.
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.
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.
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- Kölbingen (in German)
- Kölbingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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Kölbingen | |
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Old Catholic parish church on the Schoenberg between Möllingen and Koelbingen | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location of Kölbingen within Westerwaldkreis district | |
Kölbingen Kölbingen | |
| 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.
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.
Kölbingen's Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.
In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.
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.
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.
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- Kölbingen (in German)
- Kölbingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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| This Westerwaldkreis location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |