Ruppach-Goldhausen

Ruppach-Goldhausen
Coat of arms of Ruppach-Goldhausen Coat of arms
Ruppach-Goldhausen
Location of Ruppach-Goldhausen within Westerwaldkreis district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Montabaur
Government
• Mayor	Gerold Sprenger
Area
• Total	4.41 km2 (1.70 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	1,173
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56412
Dialling codes	02602
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.vg-montabaur.de

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

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald north of Montabaur on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. Through the community flows the Ahrbach. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

History

In 1289, Goldhausen had its first documentary mention as Golthusen.

Amalgamations

The two communities of Ruppach and Goldhausen merged in 1969 in the course of administrative reform.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Coat of arms

The upper part of the community’s arms represent the union of the coats of arms borne by the Lords of Reifenberg and the nobles of Nassau-Spurkenburg. Serving as the model for the arms’ design was the former court seal of Ruppach from 1596. The step-shaped lower part of the arms symbolizes clay quarrying and the wavy fess stands for the Ahrbach.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stops are Montabaur station on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line and Koblenz on the Rechte Rheinstrecke. Goldhausen has a station on the Lower Westerwald Railway Unterwesterwaldbahn from Limburg to Siershahn.

External links

• Ruppach-Goldhausen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)