Girod, Germany
Girod, Germany | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Girod, Germany
within Westerwaldkreis district
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 Location of Girod, Germany | |
  Girod, Germany  Girod, Germany | |
| Coordinates: 50°27′03″N 7°54′36″E / 50.45083°N 7.91000°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Montabaur |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Hans-Jürgen Herbst[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 7.46 km2 (2.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 265 m (869 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,196 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (415/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56412 |
| Dialling codes | 06485 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.vg-montabaur.de |
Girod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]Location
[edit]The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen on the Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
Constituent communities
[edit]Girod has one outlying Ortsteil named Kleinholbach. The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.
History
[edit]In 1235, Girod had its first documentary mention.
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]Transport
[edit]Girod has a stop on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn), Siershahn–Montabaur–Limburg, at which stop regional trains roughly every hour, run by the HLB.
The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), each 5 km away. The local bus line 450 (Limburg - Diez - Monatabaur serves the village. Marked hiking paths are around the community. Nentershausen is located in the area of the local transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), in the Tarifwabe (zone) number 411. The nearest long distance train stops are the railway stations at Limburg and Montabaur, each 12 km away, on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line, and Koblenz on the Rechte Rheinstrecke, some 40 km away.
References
[edit]- ↑ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ↑ "Bevölkerungsstand von Land, Landkreisen, Gemeinden und Verbandsgemeinden 2024 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2022)" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz.
External links
[edit]- Girod in the collective municipality's Web pages (in German)
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