Wirges

Wirges
Coat of arms
Wirges
Location of Wirges within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates: 50°28′27″N 7°47′43″E / 50.47417°N 7.79528°E / 50.47417; 7.79528Coordinates: 50°28′27″N 7°47′43″E / 50.47417°N 7.79528°E / 50.47417; 7.79528
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Wirges
Government
• Mayor	Renato Noll (SPD)
Area
• Total	10.13 km2 (3.91 sq mi)
Elevation	267 m (876 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	5,321
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56422
Dialling codes	02602
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.wirges.eu

Wirges is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Wirges lies in a high hollow in the further Westerwald between Köppel and Malberg, roughly 5 km northwest of Montabaur and 20 km northeast of Koblenz. It was granted town rights in 1975. Wirges is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality. The people of Wirges call themselves Wirgeser.

The council is made up of 22 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (Stadtbürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Allocation of seats in the municipal council:

The escutcheon has the shape of a late Gothic round shield with horizontal upper edge and sides meeting it at right angles. The town’s arms are those once borne in days of yore by the Widergis noble family, whose seat was in Wirges.

Wirges has partnership arrangements with these places:

East of the town runs Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Rennerod. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is at Montabaur station on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The town lies on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn) from Limburg to Siershahn.