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.
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.
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.
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.