Coordinates: | 50.6736°N 7.9644°W |
Image Plan: | Lautzenbrücken im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) |
Elevation: | 501 |
Area: | 4.28 |
Postal Code: | 56472 |
Area Code: | 02661 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 255 |
Divisions: | 2 |
Website: | Gemeinde Lautzenbrücken |
Mayor: | Karsten Lucke[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Lautzenbrücken 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. Lautzenbrücken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality.Its seat is in the like-named town.
Lautzenbrücken has two outlying centres named Hohensayn und Eisenkaute.
In 1262, Lautzenbrücken had its first documentary mention as Luytzebrucke.
The municipal council is made up of 8 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 Driedorf-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.