Waigandshain

Waigandshain
Waigandshain
	Coat of arms
	Location of Waigandshain within Westerwaldkreis district
	Waigandshain Waigandshain
	Coordinates: 50°38′41″N 8°5′7″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Rennerod
Government
• Mayor	Ernst-Theo Jung
Area
• Total	4.05 km2 (1.56 sq mi)
Elevation	530 m (1,740 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	198
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56477
Dialling codes	02664
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.rennerod.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg. the Breitbach Reservoir lies within the municipal area. Waigandshain belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1346, Waigandshain had its first documentary mention as Wiganshen.

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

Right near the community, Bundesstraßen 54 linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, and 414 leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg cross each other. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg), some 16 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

Fuhrländer AG manufactures windfarms.

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