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

Bellingen
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Bellingen within Westerwaldkreis district
Bellingen Show map of Germany Bellingen Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°35′31″N 7°54′25″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Westerburg
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Michael Wisser[1]
Area
• Total	4.29 km2 (1.66 sq mi)
Elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[2]
• Total	618
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56459
Dialling codes	02663
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.bellingen.de

Geography

Bellingen lies in a hollow northwest of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 8 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

External links

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

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[de] Bellingen (Westerwald)

[ru] Беллинген (Вестервальд)