Image Coa: | DEU Görgeshausen COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.4108°N 7.9561°W |
Image Plan: | Görgeshausen im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Montabaur |
Elevation: | 283 |
Area: | 3.24 |
Postal Code: | 56412 |
Area Code: | 06485 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 023 |
Website: | www.vg-montabaur.de |
Mayor: | Jürgen Kindler[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Görgeshausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park, and borders on Hesse. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
In 1290, Görgeshausen had its first documentary mention as Gerinzhausen.
The council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
The middle part of the community's arms symbolizes the so-called Löwenstein (“Lion’s Stone”), a border stone that once marked the boundary between Görgeshausen, which was then held by the Electorate of Trier, and the area belonging then to Nassau-Diez. The two linden twigs refer to the linden tree that formerly stood on the church hill in the middle of the village.
There is a sport club called Grün Weiß Görgeshausen. The name means “Green White”.
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt) about a kilometre away.