Lautzenbrücken

Lautzenbrücken
Lautzenbrücken
	Location of Lautzenbrücken within Westerwaldkreis district
	Lautzenbrücken Lautzenbrücken
	Coordinates: 50°40′25″N 7°57′52″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Subdivisions	2
Government
• Mayor	Karsten Lucke
Area
• Total	4.28 km2 (1.65 sq mi)
Elevation	501 m (1,644 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	432
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56472
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	Gemeinde Lautzenbrücken

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. Lautzenbrücken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

Lautzenbrücken has two outlying centres named Hohensayn und Eisenkaute.

In 1262, Lautzenbrücken had its first documentary mention as Luytzebrucke.

The council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Driedorf-Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen and Wilnsdorf on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 20 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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