Maxsain

Maxsain is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe community lies between the district seat of Montabaur und Hachenburg. It lies on a brook, the Saynbach, which is joined in the middle of the village by its tributary the Steinchesbach. The nearest town is Selters, 3 km away. The community is part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality.Constituent communitiesThe community of Maxsain consists of the centres of Maxsain and Zürbach, which lies some 3 km to the east of the main centre and has about 60 inhabitants. The centre was amalgamated into the community of Maxsain with administrative reform in 1974. Worth seeing are the Evangelical church and the Backes community house in the village centre.HistoryIn 1194, Maxsain had its first documentary mention. The name’s spelling changed over the centuries from Machseine to Maxeine and then Makeseyne. In 1972, in the course of municipal restructuring, the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters was founded, to which Maxsain belongs.PoliticsCommunity councilThe council is made up of 16 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor, who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.