Roßbach, Westerwaldkreis

Roßbach
Municipality
Location of Roßbach
Roßbach Roßbach
Coordinates: 50°36′21″N 7°41′0″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Hachenburg
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Wilfried Oettgen
Area
• Total	7.47 km2 (2.88 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	855
• Density	110/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56271
Dialling codes	02680
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.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.

External links

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