Girod, Germany (original) (raw)

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Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Girod, Germany
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Girod, Germany within Westerwaldkreis district
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Coordinates: 50°27′03″N 7°54′36″E / 50.45083°N 7.91000°E / 50.45083; 7.91000
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Montabaur
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Hans-Jürgen Herbst[1]
Area
• Total	7.46 km2 (2.88 sq mi)
Elevation	265 m (869 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,208
• Density	160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56412
Dialling codes	06485
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.vg-montabaur.de

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

The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen on the Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.

Girod has one outlying Ortsteil named Kleinholbach. The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.

In 1235, Girod had its first documentary mention.

The municipal council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

Economy and infrastructure

Girod has a request stop on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn), Siershahn–Montabaur–Limburg, at which stop regional trains roughly every two hours, run by the Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), each 5 km away.