Wirges

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
image_photo =
Wappen = Wappen von Wirges.pnglat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 28 |lat_sec = 27
lon_deg = 7 |lon_min = 47 |lon_sec = 43
Lageplan = Wirges im Westerwaldkreis.pngBundesland = Rheinland-Pfalz
Landkreis = Westerwaldkreis
Verbandsgemeinde = Wirges
Höhe = 267
Fläche = 10.13
Einwohner = 5094
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 56422
PLZ-alt = 5432
Vorwahl = 02602
Kfz = WW
Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 081
LOCODE = DE WIR
Adresse-Verband = Bahnhofstraße 10
56422 Wirges
Website = [http://www.wirges.eu/ www.wirges.eu]
Bürgermeister = Renato Noll
Partei = SPD

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

Geography

Location

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 found only in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Politics

Town council

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 13 June 2004.

Coat of arms

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.

Town partnerships

Wirges has partnership arrangements with these places:
*flagicon|France Montchanin, Saône-et-Loire, France
*flagicon|Croatia Samobor, Zagreb County, Croatia

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

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 the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The town lies on the "Unterwesterwaldbahn" (railway) from Limburg to Siershahn.

port and culture

SpVgg EGC Wirges’s first team plays in the football Oberliga Südwest; the A-youth have reached the Regionalliga Süd. The men’s second team play in the Rheinlandliga.

Furthermore, Wirges has several choirs, a band and a music club.

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

* 1920: Hans Schweitzer, politician
* 1948: Harald Schweitzer, politician
* 1949: Detlef Blettenberg, writer
* 1951: Gerd Andres, politician