Kölbingen
Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Kölbingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Kölbingen | |
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Old Catholic parish church on the Schoenberg between Möllingen and Koelbingen | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Kölbingen
within Westerwaldkreis district
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 Location of Kölbingen | |
  Kölbingen Location within Germany  Kölbingen Location within Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| Coordinates: 50°33′13″N 7°56′09″E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Westerburg |
| Subdivisions | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Frank Schäfer[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.07 km2 (1.57 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 377 m (1,237 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,009 |
| • Density | 248/km2 (642/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56459 |
| Dialling codes | 02663 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.koelbingen.de |
Geography
Location
Kölbingen 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 communities
Kölbingen's Ortsteile (divisions) are Schönberg, Möllingen and Kölbingen.
History
In 1494, Kölbingen had its first documentary mention.
Politics
The municipal council is made up of 16 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 26 May 2019.
Economy and infrastructure
The village is located in the fare.zone number 432 of the public transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM).
The village is served by the public local busses of the line 481.
West of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt).
Kölbingen had a stop at the Cross Westerwald railway (Montabaur - Wallmerod - Westerburg - Rennerod - Herborn) which is out of service for passenger trains and deconstructed between Wallmerod and Westerburg, nowadays the nearest train station is Westerburg station.
The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
