Wirscheid

Wirscheid
Wirscheid
	Coat of arms
	Location of Wirscheid within Westerwaldkreis district
	Wirscheid Wirscheid
	Coordinates: 50°28′41″N 7°40′2″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Ransbach-Baumbach
Government
• Mayor	Bernhard Wirz
Area
• Total	2.68 km2 (1.03 sq mi)
Elevation	293 m (961 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	336
• Density	130/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56237
Dialling codes	02601
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.wirscheid.de

Wirscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Altenkirchen in the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region known for its ceramics industry). Wirscheid belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Ransbach-Baumbach, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

History

In 1547, Wirscheid had its first mention in a historical document as Wersched.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 11 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

	Grüne	WG Wirz	Total
2004	2	8	10 seats

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Autobahn A 48 with its Höhr-Grenzhausen interchange (AS 12) lies 6 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

gollark: The phone network is apparently wildly insecure, in general, so SMS-based multi-factor authentication probably isn't *too* helpful.

gollark: *Requiring* phone verification generally isn't multi-factor authentication as much as an "annoy users by making it vaguely less likely they're bots" thing.

gollark: As far as I know the license thing never actually happened.

gollark: I have heard as much. They apparently aren't deployed much because of a lot of legal restrictions surrounding them in any case.

gollark: Unmitigated worship of him as the supreme overlord of mankind is silly, but so is claiming that he's useless and doesn't do anything.

References

"Bevölkerungsstand 2018 - Gemeindeebene". Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2019.

External links

Wirscheid (in German)

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[1] "Bevölkerungsstand 2018 - Gemeindeebene". Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2019.