Neustadt, Westerwaldkreis
Neustadt/Westerwald is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg an der Lahn. Through the municipality flows the Große Nister. Neustadt belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.Neighbouring communities
Neustadt is surrounded by the communities of Niederroßbach in the north, Emmerichenhain in the east, Hellenhahn-Schellenberg in the south and Höhn in the west.History
In 1384, Neustadt/Westerwald had its first documentary mention.Religion
Roughly 82% of the population is Catholic with the other 18% following either another or no faith.Politics
municipality council
The council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.Coat of arms
The wavy bend sinister in the municipality's arms stands for its location on the Große Nister. The black eagle in gold – the Imperial eagle – symbolizes today's rural area of Forstwiese, which was once an Imperial forest. The waterwheel stands for the two former mills at Neustadt, which did grinding for the Neustadt-Hellenhahn-Schellenberg milling region. The tinctures gold and blue are Nassau's and refer to the municipality's former territorial allegiance.Town partnerships
Neustadt is a member of the international town friendship group Neustadt in Europa with 34 members in five countries.Culture and sightseeing
- Holzbachschlucht
- Wacholderheide
Economy and infrastructure
Right near the municipality run Bundesstraßen 54, linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, and 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45, some 18 km away.The train station Niederroßbach-Neustadt was located 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.