Wallmerod (Verbandsgemeinde)

Wallmerod
Wallmerod
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates	50°29′8″N 7°57′6″E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Composition	21
Basic statistics
Area	82.94 km2 (32.02 sq mi)
Population	14,658 (31 December 2010)
- Density	177 /km2 (458 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Website	www.wallmerod.de

Wallmerod is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Westerwaldkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Wallmerod.

History

The collective municipality of Wallmerod was formed on 1 March 1972, from 15 local communities of the Oberwesterwald circle and five municipalities in the Unterwesterwaldkreis, which made it new and was thus initially in the field of two counties, which only changed when in 1974 the Westerwaldkreis had been rebuilt. Wallmerod was chosen as the administrative headquarters, because it already had a tradition as the seat of a local court.

The community Hundsangen wanted in the past at the request of citizens who consider themselves neither as Rhinelander still as the Palatinate, to go to the neighboring federal land Hesse, which, however, failed due to the non-issuance of the appropriate authorization from Rhineland-Palatinate.

The municipalities Elbingen and Mähren (Westerwald), which in the founding of the municipality Wallmerod, along with Elbingen-Mähren, were the first on 1 January 1994, to again become independent municipalities. Both communities remained in the collective municipality.

Municipalities

The Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod consists of the following ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

Arnshöfen Berod bei Wallmerod Bilkheim Dreikirchen Elbingen Ettinghausen Hahn am See Herschbach, Wallmerod Hundsangen Kuhnhöfen Mähren

Meudt Molsberg Niederahr Oberahr Obererbach Salz Steinefrenz Wallmerod Weroth Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod