Image Coa: | DEU Girod COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.4508°N 7.91°W |
Image Plan: | Girod im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Montabaur |
Elevation: | 265 |
Area: | 7.46 |
Postal Code: | 56412 |
Area Code: | 06485 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 021 |
Website: | www.vg-montabaur.de |
Mayor: | Hans-Jürgen Herbst[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Girod 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 Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
Girod has one outlying Ortsteil named Kleinholbach. The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.
In 1235, Girod had its first documentary mention.
The municipal council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Girod has a request stop on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn), Siershahn - Montabaur - Limburg, at which stop regional trains roughly every two hours, run by the Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt), each 5 km away.