Dreifelden

Dreifelden
Dreifelden
Location of Dreifelden within Westerwaldkreis district
Coordinates	50°35′29″N 7°50′10″E / 50.59139°N 7.83611°E / 50.59139; 7.83611Coordinates: 50°35′29″N 7°50′10″E / 50.59139°N 7.83611°E / 50.59139; 7.83611
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Hachenburg
Mayor	Andreas Weber (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	5.10 km2 (1.97 sq mi)
Elevation	416 m  (1365 ft)
Population	284 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	56 /km2 (144 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	WW
Postal code	57629
Area code	02666
Website	www.dreifelden.de

Dreifelden is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The name translates literally to English as "three fields".

Geography

Location

On the southern boundary of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg – a kind of collective municipality – in the northwest Westerwaldkreis lies Dreifelden, on the biggest lake found on the Westerwald Lake Plateau (Westerwälder Seenplatte), the Dreifelder Weiher. The Verbandsgemeinde to which the community belongs has its seat in the like-named town.

History

In 1319, Dreifelden had its first documentary mention.

In the center of the village stands the Threebendchurch, the oldest stone church of the Westerwald. The beginnings reach until the soon romanic times around the year 1000 back, whereby the church up until the Reformation time was used as walldrive-church.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Dreifelden is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which joins the community to the middle centres of Hachenburg (11 km) and Altenkirchen (26 km). The Autobahn interchanges Mogendorf und Dierdorf on the A 3 can be reached over Bundesstraßen 8 and 413. The Hennef interchange on the A 5 (AS 60) can be reached directly on Bundesstraße 8.

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

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

Panorama of the Dreifelder Weiher

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  Church in Dreifelden

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  Dreifelder Weiher

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  Weiherbrücke (“pond bridge”) Dreifelden

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.