Brandscheid | |
Image Coa: | DEU Brandscheid (Westerwald) COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.5608°N 7.9203°W |
Image Plan: | Brandscheid im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Westerburg |
Elevation: | 420 |
Area: | 3.03 |
Postal Code: | 56459 |
Area Code: | 02663 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 213 |
Website: | www.brandscheid.de |
Mayor: | Erhard Meutsch[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Brandscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Brandscheid lies on a mountain slope in the broad woodlands west of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.
Northwest 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.