Irmtraut
Irmtraut | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Irmtraut
within Westerwaldkreis district
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 Location of Irmtraut | |
  Irmtraut  Irmtraut | |
| Coordinates: 50°33′20″N 8°03′41″E / 50.55556°N 8.06139°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Westerwaldkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Rennerod |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Jens Peter Heun[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.52 km2 (1.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 360 m (1,180 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 807 |
| • Density | 179/km2 (462/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56479 |
| Dialling codes | 06436 |
| Vehicle registration | WW |
| Website | www.irmtraut.de |
Irmtraut is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg at the boundary with Hesse. Irmtraut belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.
History
[edit]In 879, Irmtraut had its first documentary mention when Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau donated holdings here to the St. Severus Monastery in Gemünden.
Politics
[edit]The municipal council is made up of 14 council members, who all belong to the Wählergemeinschaft ("Voters' Community"), and who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit]The local bus line 477 runs on the route Rehe - Rennerod - Irmtraut - Westerburg Montabaur. The village is located in the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM). Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Limburg-Nord on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 20 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
See also
[edit]- Armentrout (surname)
References
[edit]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand von Land, Landkreisen, Gemeinden und Verbandsgemeinden 2024 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2022)" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz.
2. Armentrout Family History 1739-1978 by Russell S. Armentrout, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society (1980)
