Berzhahn

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

Geography

Berzhahn lies on the north slope of the broad woodland 4 km southeast of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

In 1338, Berzhahn had its first documentary mention.

The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor, who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Berzhahn has a stop at the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway, which is served by the local trains of the line RB90.
From Limburg and Au station there are straight connections to Frankfurt/Main, Wiesbaden, Koblenz, Cologne and Aachen.
Southeast of the municipality runs Bundesstraße 255, which leads from Montabaur to Rennerod. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn on the A 3.
The nearest InterCityExpress stops are the railway stations at Montabaur and Limburg Süd on the Cologne-Frankfurt [high-speed rail line].