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Westerburg () is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the medieval town centre (Burg is German for “castle”)

Key facts

German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_photo
Westerburg - Schlossberg.jpg
German location.image_caption
Westerburg Schlossberg the castle and the Evangelical castle church
German location.image_coa
DEU Westerburg COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Westerburg im Westerwaldkreis.png
German location.state
Rheinland-Pfalz
German location.district
Westerwaldkreis
German location.Verbandsgemeinde
Westerburg
German location.elevation
343
German location.area
18.48
German location.postal_code
56457
German location.area_code
02663
German location.licence
WW
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
07 1 43 308
German location.divisions
3
German location.mayor
Janick Pape
German location.leader_term
2019–24
German location.party
CDU

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Location
  • Constituent communities
  • History
  • Politics
  • Community council
  • Mayor
  • Town partnerships
  • Economy and infrastructure
  • Transport
  • Education
  • Sport
  • Culture and sightseeing
  • Buildings
  • References
  • External links

Westerburg () is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the medieval town centre (Burg is German for “castle”)

==Geography==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Westerburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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