Nistertal

Nistertal
Municipality
Erbach (Nistertal)
Coat of arms
Location of Nistertal within Westerwaldkreis district Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Subdivisions	2
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Christian Benner[1]
Area
• Total	3.90 km2 (1.51 sq mi)
Elevation	320 m (1,050 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,200
• Density	310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	57647
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.nistertal-westerwald.de

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

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen. Nistertal belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Constituent communities

Nistertal's

are Büdingen and Erbach.

History

In 1274, Büdingen had its first documentary mention. Erbach's first documentary mention followed in 1353.

Amalgamations

The community of Nistertal came into being in 1969 in the course of administrative reform through the merger of the communities of Büdingen and Erbach. For centuries before this, the Große Nister, flowing between the two places, marked not only a political boundary, but a dialectal and religious one, too.

Politics

Municipal council

The municipal council is made up of 16 council members drawn from two voting communities (Wählergemeinschaften) who were elected in a

in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Coat of arms

The two uppermost charges in the community's arms stand for the two constituent communities of Büdingen and Erbach. The hexagon and the miner's hammers symbolize the rich basalt deposits and their exploitation as the community's characteristic industry and livelihood. The alder twig refers to the Ortsteil name Erbach (from Erlenbach – Erle being German for “alder”). The wavy parting per pale represents the community's location on the Nister, with Büdingen on the left and Erbach on the right. The bridge that fills out the shield's lower portion is a symbol of the Erbach Bridge as well as the roadbridge between the two constituent communities. The tinctures gold and blue were those borne by the Duchy of Nassau. They refer to the community's centuries-long territorial allegiance to that state.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The

line was shut down in 1971, the bridge was preserved as a technological building monument.

Also worthy of mention is the Wasserbrücke (“Waterbridge”). At this bridge, water is borne across the tracks of the Nistertal-Bad Marienberg railway line.

Economy and infrastructure

North of the community runs

.

References

1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
2. Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
   . 2023.

External links

• Nistertal (in German)