Heiligenroth

Heiligenroth is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe village lies roughly 3 km from Montabaur. In the immediate vicinity are found Ruppach-Goldhausen, Boden, Staudt, Wirzenborn and Großholbach. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.PoliticsCommunity councilThe council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor, who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.Coat of armsThe approval to bear a coat of arms was granted by the government assistant on 21 March 1980. In the arms are a red watchtower on a silver background, and a golden lion rampant on a blue background. The watchtower still stands today in Heiligenroth. Formerly it stood alone, with a small church beside it. Only in 1782 was the church that stands today built onto the Romanesque tower. At that time, the tower served a defensive function, hence the loopholes, and it belonged until 1975 to the community, while the church belonged to the parish. It was only then that the tower’s ownership passed to the parish.