Mörsbach

Mörsbach
Municipality
Niedermörsbach
Coat of arms
Location of Mörsbach within Westerwaldkreis district
Mörsbach Show map of Germany Mörsbach Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°43′36″N 7°47′0″E / 50.72667°N 7.78333°E / 50.72667; 7.78333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Hachenburg
Subdivisions	4
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Egon Müller[1]
Area
• Total	5.92 km2 (2.29 sq mi)
Elevation	340 m (1,120 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	401
• Density	68/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	57629
Dialling codes	02688
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.hachenburg-vg.de

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

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen in the nature and landscape conservation area of the Kroppach Switzerland (Kroppacher Schweiz). It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town. Another Mörsbach is Part of the Town Zweibrücken in Rheinland-Pfalz near the Border to Saarland with about 1000 Citizen

Mörsbach's Ortsteile are Obermörsbach, Niedermörsbach, Wintershof and Burbach.

In 1335, Mörsbach had its first documentary mention as Mersbach.

The municipal council is made up of 9 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Gießen). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

• Mörsbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)

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