Wölferlingen

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
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Lageplan = Wölferlingen im Westerwaldkreis.pngBundesland = Rheinland-Pfalz
Landkreis = Westerwaldkreis
Verbandsgemeinde = Selters (Westerwald)
Höhe = 400
Fläche = 8.23
Einwohner = 575
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 56244
Vorwahl = 02666
Kfz = WW
Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 085
Adresse-Verband = Am Saynbach 5 - 7
56242 Selters (Westerwald)
Website = [http://www.selters-ww.de/adressedetail.php?addrid=455&lay1=2&lay2=1&lay3=0&lay4=0]
Bürgermeister = Arnold Wengenroth

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

Geography

Location

Wölferlingen lies 8 km northeast of Selters on the Westerwald Lake Plateau, a popular holiday and recreation area offering many hiking and cycling paths. The Wölferlinger Weiher (a 1.02-ha pond) is a protected natural area and is known for its rare bird and plant species. Wölferlingen belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Selters, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Constituent communities

The community has one outlying centre called Düringen.

History

In 1349, Wölferlingen had its first documentary mention as "Wulferinc". In 1359 it was called "Wolfferingin", then later "Wölfringen", "Wolffryngen" or "Wulffringen", and since 1622 "Wölferlingen". In 1399, a chapel was built on the spot where the church now stands, allowing Wölferlingen to mark two round-numbered birthdays in 1999. While Wölferlingen was formerly an agricultural community, it has nowadays developed into an almost purely residential community. Now, there is still one fulltime farmer and there are agricultural side-businesses. Nevertheless, the 800-ha municipal area – 305 ha of which is wooded – is still fully worked by these farmers. There is hardly any unused land. The forest was once the community’s main income earner, but this has now changed. In the long term, the community fathers are happy if the break-even point is reached in the forest.

Today the community forest’s importance stands in the foreground as a surety for keeping the air clean, as water storage for the local people, an attraction for tourism, and not least of all as a common cultural resource.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor ("Bürgermeister"), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

The community lies east of "Bundesstraße" 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is "Mogendorf" on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

External links

* [http://www.selters-ww.de/adressedetail.php?addrid=455&lay1=2&lay2=1&lay3=0&lay4=0 Wölferlingen in the collective municipality’s Web pages] de icon