Bölsberg

Bölsberg
Municipality
Location of Bölsberg within Westerwaldkreis district
Bölsberg Bölsberg
Coordinates: 50°40′07″N 7°54′54″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Paul Gerhard Krüger
Area
• Total	1.46 km2 (0.56 sq mi)
Elevation	470 m (1,540 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	216
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	57648
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.bad-marienberg.de

Bölsberg 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. Bölsberg is the smallest community in the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

History

About 1300, Bölsberg had its first documentary mention.

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.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

North of the community runs Bundesstraße 414 leading from Driedorf-Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

External links

• Bölsberg in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)