Halbs


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

Geography

Location

Halbs lies 3 km north of Westerburg on a bank in the middle of a wooded and field area. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Neighbouring communities

Bordering on Halbs are Ailertchen, Hergenroth and Stahlhofen am Wiesensee.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor, who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

North of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Diez on the A 3.
Halbs also had a stop at the Cross Westerwald railway which is out of service for passenger trains, today the nearest accessibility to train service is Westerburg station at the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway.
The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.