Kölbingen

Kölbingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationKölbingen lies roughly 4 km west of Westerburg, in a hollow between the Geisenwald and the Ruhscheid. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.Constituent communitiesKölbingen’s Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.HistoryIn 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.PoliticsCommunity councilThe council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor, who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.Economy and infrastructureTransportWest of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.