Brandscheid, Westerwaldkreis Explained

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.

Geography

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.

Economy and infrastructure

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.

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Notes and References

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