Ettinghausen, Germany

Ettinghausen
Ettinghausen
	Coat of arms
	Location of Ettinghausen within Westerwaldkreis district
	Ettinghausen Ettinghausen
	Coordinates: 50°31′02″N 7°52′24″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Wallmerod
Government
• Mayor	Horst Zerfas
Area
• Total	2.38 km2 (0.92 sq mi)
Elevation	401 m (1,316 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	327
• Density	140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56244
Dialling codes	06435
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.wallmerod.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Hachenburg. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.

In 1367, Ettinghausen had its first recorded mention, as Ittincusen.

The council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 10 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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