Heiligenroth

Coat of arms

Heiligenroth

Location of Heiligenroth within Westerwaldkreis district

Coordinates: 50°26′59″N 7°51′54″E / 50.44972°N 7.86500°ECoordinates: 50°26′59″N 7°51′54″E / 50.44972°N 7.86500°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Erich Herbst

Area

• Total

6.01 km² (2.32 sq mi)

Elevation

235 m (771 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,397

• Density

230/km² (600/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

56412

02602

Website

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

The village lies roughly 3 km from Montabaur. In the immediate vicinity are found Ruppach-Goldhausen, Boden, Staudt, Wirzenborn and Großholbach. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.

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.

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.

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