Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate Explained

Bellingen
Image Coa:DEU Bellingen (Westerwald) COA.svg
Coordinates:50.5919°N 7.9069°W
Image Plan:Bellingen im Westerwaldkreis.png
State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District:Westerwaldkreis
Verbandsgemeinde:Westerburg
Elevation:430
Area:4.29
Postal Code:56459
Area Code:02663
Licence:WW
Gemeindeschlüssel:07 1 43 207
Website:www.bellingen.de
Mayor:Michael Wisser[1]
Leader Term:2019 - 24

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

Geography

Bellingen lies in a hollow northwest of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 8 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1430000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis