Roßbach, Westerwaldkreis

Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

(2019–24) Wilfried Oettgen^[1]Area • Total7.47 km² (2.88 sq mi)Elevation300 m (1,000 ft)Population • Total855 • Density110/km² (300/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codesDialling codes02680Vehicle registrationWWWebsitewww.rossbach-ww.de

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

Geography

The community lies between Hachenburg and Dierdorf. The residential community of Roßbach belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Politics

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

	SPD	CDU	Wählergemeinschaft	Total
2004	5	3	4	12 seats

Economy and infrastructure

Roßbach lies west of Bundesstraße 413 from Bendorf (near Koblenz) to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Dierdorf on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

External links

• Roßbach (in German)
• Roßbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)