Westerburg is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Geografie

Geographical situation

The city is appropriate for 4 km in the extreme east far away from Rhineland-Palatinate, from the border to Hessen. It is seat of the convention community Westerburg

City arrangement

The three quarters are Gershasen, Wengenroth and Sainscheid.

History

The city belonged from 1866 to 1885 to the office Rennerod and at the same time to the again created Oberwesterwaldkreis with seat in Marienberg. The circle reform of 1885 brought back a over-local function to Westerburg. Westerburg became seat of the circle of the same name, which remained existing to 1932. With the circle reform 1932 the Oberwesterwaldkreis was again created, whose seat was in Westerburg. In the year 1974 the existing upper and Unterwesterwaldkreis were folded up to the Westerwaldkreis, Westerburg were starting from this time up to the today's day no more district town.

Politics

With the election to the Bundestag 2005 14,167 citizens went to the choice (election turnout 78,0 per cent), about which to the Erststimmen were allotted: CDU 7,217 (52,0%, secondary voices 43,6%), SPD 4,844 (34,9%, and/or 32,3%), FDP 534 (3,8%, but secondary voices 10,9%), 2.7/5.4%, left wing party 3.9/4.3%.

The appropriate data of the entire Westerwaldkreises amount to: 122.398 (79,0%), to CDU 48,9%, SPD 36,5, FDP 4,5, the Green 3,4%, link 4.3%, other one 2,4%.

Town councillor

The town councillor von Westerburg itself from 23 advice women and councilmen together, including the mayor.

(Conditions: Local election on 13 June 2004)

Partnerships between cities

• Twin cities of Westerburg is the British Daventry and the French Le Cateau.

Infrastructure, economics and sport

The Westerburger country has by its situation between the densely populated areas of the Rhine Main area and the area Cologne Duesseldorf Ruhr district a substantial attraction (according to self-description on 3.Website).

In order to secure it, the municipality and the association for trade, handicraft and trade at the beginning of 2005 the work on a qualified location marketing for Westerburg and the Westerburger country, took up in which all ranges of the economical and the political life of the city and its surrounding countryside are taken part.

The distance to the motorways Cologne Frankfurt (A 3), Dortmund pouring (A 45) as well as Montabaur Trier (A 48) amounts to approximately in each case 20 km.

The start-up of ICE traffic on the new building distance Cologne Frankfurt with the close critical points Montabaur and Limburg will obtain additional impulses for the total development in the Westerburger country. With Westerburg the airfield Ailertchen lies.

At sports facilities there is the Westerwaldstadion and the school sports stadium, combat course type B with lawn large playing field, plastic round course and supplementing match-fair plants for the Leichtathletik. Further possibilities - e.g. a climbing garden - develop at present in the experience park

Tertiary and experience park

Geology and prehistory

At the for a long time basalt is diminished and processed too much durable crushed stone. Below the building of days put on one found a fossil, 25 million years old lake, in whose deposits the remainders of the earlier environment remained keeping unusually good: Fossils of sheets, insects with color preservation, fish, frogs, turtles and mammals with their soft parts. It is stores of world meaning, unique for these time the Tertiary period - in Europe.

It investigated since 1990 by the earth-history care of monuments Rhineland-Palatinate ergraben and in co-operation with international universities, museums and the national office for geology and mining industry of Rhineland-Palatinate. Stores are constantly continued to open in the course of the basalt dismantling and as "Tertiary period park" - project durably for the Wissenschafter secured.

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At the same time the place of discovery of the public is made accessible and is to become in the context of the regional promotion of economy development the attraction for spare time and culture programs. For this "tertiary and experience parkpark experience park the resettlement of botanischer "Exoten is intended" as characteristic -- today's the related Pflanzengesellschaften at that time. Before the exact composition of the tertiary Flora must be analyzed, for which a thesis was the first step.

At present the recultivation of individual subsections of the building of basalt days runs. In the course its becomes the lining up area again a strongly arranged landscape with differences in height up to 100 m and a bath lake with fun and culture stations, lain central. In the future interested e.g. in scientific excavations to along-do, or concerts and theatres before high quarry walls can experience. In the context of a climbing school for sportily engaged one in shut down dismantling zones some climbing walls will be to senkrechte at the disposal.

In the late autumn 2005 the first station will be finished: a 17m high prospect control room with Stockum with integrated weather station. From there park visitors and Wanderer apart from the impressive remote view can pursue also the construction work in the active part of the quarry and a growing of the experience park.

Amphitheater in the

When the company Adrian began to remove in the outside silo of its areaarea area the deposited basalt crushed stone spontaneously the idea developed, that out a Amphitheater to make. There is shortly an open air stage for groups of theatres, choirs and other culture-interested thus in the Westerwald:

Created in this large "basalt hollow" at the external silo with geringst possible costs a stage with auditorium of 400 persons. Seats become the visitors on basalt Garbionen (wire baskets of the earlier basalt promotion) with seat boards. As window blind or adjusting wall the old crusher building serves, the theatre with an old Bruchstein-Mauer style and delightfully is downward locked. The shortly finished open air area for theatre, concerts, cinema etc. keeps thus Ambiente, framed from old industrial buildings, a fitting the place, conveyors and waste dumps of the basalt dismantling like-crude-become green.

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