Burbach is a municipality in the

Siegen-Wittgenstein Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe (district), Olpe, Hochsauerlandkreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, and Altenkirche ...

district, in

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Geography

Burbach is located in Siegen-Wittgenstein district on the river Heller, about 15 km south of

Siegen Siegen () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the Arnsberg (region), Arnsberg region. The university town (n ...

. Burbach also is a community in the southern part of the state Northrhine Westphalia.

Constituent divisions

The community of Burbach consists of the following subdivisions: Burbach, Gilsbach, Holzhausen, Lippe, Lützeln, Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, Wahlbach, Würgendorf.

Politics

Municipal council

The council's 32 seats are apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 25 May 2014: * CDU 19 seats * SPD 10 seats * Greens 3 seats

Coat of arms

Burbach's civic

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might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale, dexter in azure spangled with billets Or a two-tailed lion rampant Or armed and langued gules, sinister in Or three lozenges sable arranged vertically. The lion stands for the princely House of Nassau-Siegen. The three lozenges (diamonds) come from the Lords of Seelbach, who held sway over the community in the

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. The current civic coat of arms is based on the now abolished '' Amt's'' arms, and was granted in 1970. The local court for Burbach and Seelbach was already using the combination of a lion and diamonds by the 15th centur

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Running through the northeast of the municipal area is

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A 45 (''Sauerlandlinie''). As well, the municipal area is connected in the east to Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 54, which runs from

towards

Limburg an der Lahn Limburg an der Lahn (, ; officially abbreviated ''Limburg a. d. Lahn'') is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Limburg lies in western Hesse between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn. The t ...

. Bus connections are provided by the Westphalia-South Transport Community (''Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd''; VGWS) running to all neighbouring communities. The community is directly connected to the

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network by the ''Hellertalbahn'' railway running from

Haiger Haiger is a country town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Siegen, about 25 km north of Haiger. Geography Location Haiger lies about 5 km west of Dillenburg, and 20 km southeast of Siegen on the eastern ...

to Betzdorf. In the southern municipal area lies the

Siegerland Airport Siegerland Airport or ''Siegerlandflughafen'' in German is a small regional airport in Burbach in the Siegerland region near Siegen, Germany. It was formerly served by the Scheuerfeld–Emmerzhausen railway and is presently used as the mainten ...

Established businesses

Well known businesses in Burbach are: * Expert Klein * Foto-Drogerie-Kosmetik Bräuer * Georgi Transporte * Hering Bau (tracklaying) * Heusel Kälte- und Klimatechnik * SOPREMA-KLEWA Dachbaustoffe * MHP Mannesmann Präzisrohr * Orica, Werk Würgendorf (formerly Dynamit Nobel AG) * razorcom it service * Rittal * WaldrichSiegen * IPG Photonics

Notable people

Notable people associated with the town include: * Cem Islamoglu, Turkish-German

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player *

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* Dirk Müller, racing driver * Hermann Schmidt, German

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* Markus Waldrich, German football player

References

External links

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Burbach in the ''Kulturatlas Westfalen''

Catholic parish

Protestantic parish
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