Image Coa: | DEU Weltersburg COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 50.5233°N 7.9606°W |
Image Plan: | Weltersburg im Westerwaldkreis.png |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Westerwaldkreis |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Westerburg |
Elevation: | 400 |
Area: | 2.66 |
Postal Code: | 56459 |
Area Code: | 06435 |
Licence: | WW |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 307 |
Website: | www.weltersburg.de |
Mayor: | Gisela Benten[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Weltersburg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Weltersburg lies 4 km southeast of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Pfalz. Its seat is in the like-named town.
Between Weltersburg and Willmenrod is the rock formation and natural monument of Kranstein on the edge of a basalt quarry.
The municipal council is made up of 7 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
South of the community runs Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.