Gehlert

Gehlert
Gehlert
	Coat of arms
	Location of Gehlert within Westerwaldkreis district
	Gehlert Gehlert
	Coordinates: 50°38′30″N 7°49′46″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Hachenburg
Government
• Mayor	Paul Kunz
Area
• Total	5.19 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	614
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	57627
Dialling codes	02662
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.gemeinde-gehlert.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen, roughly 2 km south of Hachenburg. Gehlert belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1255, Gehlert had its first documentary mention as Geilinrode.

The council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

The yearly Whitsun kermis is the highlight of community life.

Northwest of the community runs Bundesstraße 413 leading from Bendorf (near Koblenz) to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Gießen) and also in Mogendorf on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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