Nauort

Nauort
Coat of arms
Nauort
Location of Nauort within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates: 50°28′0″N 7°37′31″E / 50.46667°N 7.62528°E / 50.46667; 7.62528Coordinates: 50°28′0″N 7°37′31″E / 50.46667°N 7.62528°E / 50.46667; 7.62528
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Ransbach-Baumbach
Government
• Mayor	Frank Herrmann (CDU)
Area
• Total	6.42 km2 (2.48 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	2,255
• Density	350/km2 (910/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56237
Dialling codes	02601
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.nauort.de

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

The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen. A local tourist draw is the community’s favourable location in the Sayn-Isenburg-Grenzau “castle triangle”. Nauort belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Ransbach-Baumbach, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Nauort’s immediate nrighbours are the smaller Ortsgemeinden Caan (1 km away), Sessenbach (2 km) and Alsbach (2 km) as well as Bendorf’s outlying centre of Stromberg (2 km).

The name “Nauort” developed by way of “Naurodt” (16th century) from “Nuenrohde”, meaning “new clearing”, which had its first documentary mention in 1279.

In the 20th century, besides agriculture, the local pumice industry was one of the main income sources for Nauorters. Benefits were also drawn from the community’s membership in the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”) around the ceramics production centre of Höhr-Grenzhausen.

The Catholic parish, which belongs to the Bishopric of Limburg, has as its church patron John the Baptist.

The council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 25 May 2014.