Stockhausen-Illfurth

Stockhausen-Illfurth
Stockhausen-Illfurth
	Location of Stockhausen-Illfurth within Westerwaldkreis district
	Stockhausen-Illfurth Stockhausen-Illfurth
	Coordinates: 50°38′48″N 7°59′15″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Government
• Mayor	Karl-Heinz Baldus
Area
• Total	3.24 km2 (1.25 sq mi)
Elevation	496 m (1,627 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	444
• Density	140/km2 (350/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56472
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.bad-marienberg.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg und Siegen. Through the community flows the Große Nister. Stockhausen-Illfurth belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1438, Stockhausen-Illfurth had its first documentary mention.

The council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

North of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 22 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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