Elsoff

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Elsoff
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Location of Elsoff within Westerwaldkreis district
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Elsoff
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Elsoff
Coordinates: 50°34′33″N8°06′58″E / 50.57583°N 8.11611°E / 50.57583; 8.11611 Coordinates: 50°34′33″N8°06′58″E / 50.57583°N 8.11611°E / 50.57583; 8.11611
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc. Rennerod
Government
   Mayor (201924) Kornelia Jex [1]
Area
  Total9.44 km2 (3.64 sq mi)
Elevation
370 m (1,210 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31) [2]
  Total902
  Density96/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
56479
Dialling codes 02664
Vehicle registration WW
Website www.elsoff.de

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

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Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen (35 km to the north), Wetzlar (28 km to the east) and Limburg an der Lahn (22 km to the south). Elsoff belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Culture and sightseeing

Elsoff has listed cultural sites. [3] The listing is divided into Elsoff and Mittelhofen, as they were previously independent municipalities.

Elsoff (Westerwald)
Elsoff (Westerwald) – Mittelhofen
Catholic branch church Mittelhofen, Kapelle (1).JPG
Catholic branch church
Half-timbered house and iron founatain Elsoff-Mittelhofen - Brunnenstrasse 11 (KD.RLP) und Laufbrunnen (KD.RLP 1 07.2015).jpg
Half-timbered house and iron founatain

Economy and infrastructure

West of the community runs Bundesstraße 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn on the A 45 (DortmundAschaffenburg), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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References

  1. Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
  2. "Bevölkerungsstand 2020, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden". Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2021.
  3. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (Ed.) Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler – Westerwaldkreis (Memento from 07.01.2021 in Internet Archive) Bergamo 2021 pp. 10 f. (PDF; 4,8 MB)