Wirges () is a town in the

Westerwaldkreis The Westerwaldkreis ("District of Westerwald") is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Altenkirchen, Lahn-Dill, Limburg-Weilburg, Rhein-Lahn, the district-free ...

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Geography

Wirges lies in a high hollow in the further

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between Köppel and Malberg, roughly 5 km northwest of

Montabaur Montabaur () is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. At the same time, it is also the administrative centre of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Montabaur – a kind of collective municipality – to w ...

and 20 km northeast of Koblenz. It was granted town rights in 1975. Wirges is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality. The people of Wirges call themselves Wirgeser.

Politics

Town council

The council is made up of 22 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (''Stadtbürgermeister''), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009. Allocation of seats in the municipal council:

Coat of arms

The escutcheon has the shape of a late Gothic round shield with horizontal upper edge and sides meeting it at right angles. The town’s

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are those once borne in days of yore by the Widergis noble family, whose seat was in Wirges.

Town partnerships

Wirges has partnership arrangements with these places: *

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, Saône-et-Loire,

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Economy and infrastructure

East of the town runs ''

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'' 255 linking

and

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. The nearest

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interchange is ''Montabaur'' on the A 3 (

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–

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), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is at Montabaur station on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The town lies on the Lower Westerwald Railway (''Unterwesterwaldbahn'') from

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to Siershahn.

Sport and culture

SpVgg EGC Wirges SpVgg EGC Wirges is a German association football club from the city of Wirges, Rhineland-Palatinate. __TOC__ History ''Spielvereinigung Eintracht Glas-Chemie Wirges'' was formed 1 July 1972 through the merger of ''Sport Club Wirges'' (1924), ...

’ first team plays in the football Oberliga Südwest; the A-youth have reached the Regionalliga Süd. The men’s second team play in the Rheinlandliga. The main church is the Westerwälder Dom St. Bonifatius Furthermore, Wirges has several choirs, a band and a music club.

Notable people

* 1926: Kurt Isselbacher, physician * 1951: Gerd Andres, politician

References

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