Image Coa: | DEU Langenbach bei Kirburg COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.7039°N 7.9367°W |
Image Plan: | Langenbach_bei_Kirburg im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) |
Elevation: | 500 |
Area: | 5.51 |
Postal Code: | 57520 |
Area Code: | 02661 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 253 |
Website: | www.bad-marienberg.de |
Mayor: | Artur Schneider[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Langenbach bei Kirburg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. The Langenbach, which belongs to the Sieg drainage basin, flows through the municipal area. Langenbach bei Kirburg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality.Its seat is in the like-named town.
In 1261, Langenbach bei Kirburg had its first documentary mention.
The municipal council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen and Wilnsdorf on the A 45 (Dortmund - Hanau), some 20 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.