Mähren

Mähren is also the German name for Moravia.

Mähren
Mähren
Location of Mähren within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates	50°31′24″N 7°55′21″E / 50.52333°N 7.9225°E / 50.52333; 7.9225Coordinates: 50°31′24″N 7°55′21″E / 50.52333°N 7.9225°E / 50.52333; 7.9225
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Wallmerod
Mayor	Volker Solbach
Basic statistics
Area	1.59 km2 (0.61 sq mi)
Elevation	342 m  (1122 ft)
Population	243 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	153 /km2 (396 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WW
Postal code	56459
Area code	06435
Website	www.wallmerod.de

Mähren 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 Montabaur and Westerburg. Mähren is a residential village and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.

History

In 1508, Mähren had its first documentary mention as Mern.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Mayor

Since 2007, Volker Solbach has been the mayor of Mähren. He took over from Josef Ortseifen.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Right near the community runs Bundesstraße 8, linking Limburg an der Lahn and Hennef. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 13 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf. 

External links

• Mähren (German)
• Mähren in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.