Heiligenroth

Heiligenroth
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Heiligenroth within Westerwaldkreis district Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Montabaur
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Daniel Kurth[1]
Area
• Total	6.01 km2 (2.32 sq mi)
Elevation	235 m (771 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,413
• Density	240/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56412
Dialling codes	02602
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.heiligenroth.de

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

Geography

The village lies roughly 3 km from

, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

	CDU	SPD	Wählergruppe Herbst	Wählergruppe Bellessem	Total
2004	6	4	4	2	16 seats

Coat of arms

The approval to bear a coat of arms was granted by the government assistant on 21 March 1980. In the arms are a red watchtower on a silver background, and a golden lion rampant on a blue background. The watchtower still stands today in Heiligenroth. Formerly it stood alone, with a small church beside it. Only in 1782 was the church that stands today built onto the Romanesque tower. At that time, the tower served a defensive function, hence the loopholes, and it belonged until 1975 to the community, while the church belonged to the parish. It was only then that the tower's ownership passed to the parish.

The choice of Nassau tinctures has not as much to do with the short political connection with the Duchy of Nassau (1802–1866) as it has to do with Heiligenroth's location, which is in the middle of the Nassauer Land. So the Nassau Nature Park begins in Heiligenroth, and even the Bundeswehr soldiers stationed in Montabaur bore Nassau's arms – the golden lion rampant on a blue background – on the left sleeve.

Culture and sightseeing

Clubs

The community's clubs are a women's choir, a volunteer

and a tennis club.

Economy and infrastructure

The community lies in the

. There are also production businesses there.

Among public institutions there are one

parish church.

References