Hilgert in the Kannenbäckerland is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde

Verbandsgemeinde

A Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit in the German Bundesländer of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.-Rhineland-Palatinate:...

– in the Westerwaldkreis

Westerwaldkreis

The Westerwaldkreis is a district in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...

 in Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....

, Germany

Germany

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.

Location

Hilgert lies roughly 13 km from Koblenz on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Höhr-Grenzhausen

Höhr-Grenzhausen (Verbandsgemeinde)

Höhr-Grenzhausen is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Westerwaldkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Höhr-Grenzhausen....

, a kind of collective municipality.

Community council

The council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

	CDU	SPD	FWG	Total
2004	6	6	4	16 seats

Transport

The A 48 with its Höhr-Grenzhausen

Höhr-Grenzhausen

Höhr-Grenzhausen is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a centre for the ceramic industry in the Kannenbäckerland with a professional college for ceramics, another for ceramic form, and many others, hence the nickname Kannenbäckerstadt .Together with the...

interchange

Interchange (road)

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 (AS 12) lies right near the municipal area, 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress

InterCityExpress

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 stops are the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line and the one at Koblenz on the Rechte Rheinstrecke.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Albrecht Klauer-Simonis (1918–2002), artist and publisher
• Udo E. Simonis (1937- ), professor of environmental politics