Image Coa: | DEU Norken COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.6728°N 7.8978°W |
Image Plan: | Norken in WW.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) |
Elevation: | 458 |
Area: | 5.99 |
Postal Code: | 57629 |
Area Code: | 02661 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 280 |
Website: | www.norken.de |
Mayor: | Simone Jungbluth[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Norken 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 community is also between the Große Nister and Kleine Nister. Norken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
In 1262, Norken 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 13 June 2004.
At Easter, the traditional Eierschibbeln – a kind of Easter egg roll – is celebrated.
Running right near the community is Bundesstraße 414, leading from Herborn to Altenkirchen. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen and Wilnsdorf on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 26 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.