Weltersburg

Weltersburg
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Weltersburg within Westerwaldkreis district
Location of Weltersburg
Weltersburg Weltersburg
Coordinates: 50°31′24″N 7°57′38″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Westerburg
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Gisela Benten
Area
• Total	2.66 km2 (1.03 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population  (2024-12-31)
• Total	326
• Density	123/km2 (317/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56459
Dialling codes	06435
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.weltersburg.de

Weltersburg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

Weltersburg lies 4 km southeast of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Pfalz. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Natural monuments

Between Weltersburg and Willmenrod is the rock formation and natural monument of Kranstein on the edge of a basalt quarry.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 7 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Economy and infrastructure

Weltersburg is located in the area of the public transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), zone 429. South of the community runs Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

External links

• Weltersburg in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)