Salzburg, Germany

Salzburg
Salzburg
	Coat of arms
	Location of Salzburg within Westerwaldkreis district
	Salzburg Salzburg
	Coordinates: 50°40′5″N 8°2′53″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Rennerod
Government
• Mayor	Harald Menk
Area
• Total	2.30 km2 (0.89 sq mi)
Elevation	600 m (2,000 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	228
• Density	99/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56479
Dialling codes	02667
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.rennerod.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg. Salzburg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

About 1300, Salzburg had its first documentary mention as Salberg.

The council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Right near the community, two Bundesstraßen, 54 linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, and 414 leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg cross each other. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn 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.

"Bevölkerungsstand 2018 - Gemeindeebene". Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2019.

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