Westernohe
Westernohe | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Westernohe within Westerwaldkreis district | |
  Westernohe | |
| Coordinates: 50°35′21″N 8°6′1″E / 50.58917°N 8.10028°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Rennerod |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Volker Abel[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.50 km2 (2.90 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 425 m (1,394 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 908 |
| • Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56479 |
| Dialling codes | 02664 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
Westernohe is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen (34 km to the north), Wetzlar (28 km to the east) and Limburg (24 km to the south). Westernohe belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town. In Westernohe itself is a big campground of the Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (DPSG).
History
[edit]In 1059, Westernohe had its first documented mention as Westernaha.
Tug of war incident
[edit]In 1995, 650 young scouts participated in a tug-of-war competition. When the rope broke, only 20 seconds into the tug, two children were killed and 102 participants suffered injuries. The rope was judged to be unsuited for the use in the related court case.[3]
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]Bundesstraße 54, linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, runs 3 km west of the community. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg), some 22 km away. 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.
- ^ "2 Boy Scouts Die When Tug-Of-War Rope Snaps". The Spokesman-Review. 7 June 1995. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
External links
[edit]- Westernohe (in German)
- Westernohe in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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