Ettinghausen | |
Image Coa: | DEU Ettinghausen COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.5172°N 7.8733°W |
Image Plan: | Ettinghausen im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Wallmerod |
Elevation: | 401 |
Area: | 2.38 |
Postal Code: | 56244 |
Area Code: | 06435 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 220 |
Website: | www.wallmerod.de |
Mayor: | Dieter Püsch[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Ettinghausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Hachenburg. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.
In 1367, Ettinghausen had its first recorded mention, as Ittincusen.
The municipal council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt), some 10 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.