Höhr-Grenzhausen is a town in the Westerwaldkreis

Westerwaldkreis

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

 in Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

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, Germany

Germany

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. 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 (roughly, “Jug Baking Town”).

Together with the communities of Hillscheid

Hillscheid

Hillscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:Hillscheid lies northeast of Koblenz on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park...

, Hilgert

Hilgert

Hilgert in the Kannenbäckerland is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-Location:Hilgert lies roughly 13 km from Koblenz on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park...

 and Kammerforst it has formed 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 – since 1971.

Location

Höhr-Grenzhausen lies roughly 10 km west of Montabaur

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 which 24 other communities belong...

, and 10 km northeast of Koblenz

Koblenz

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.

Town council

	CDU	SPD	FWG	FDP	Grüne	Total
2004	10	5	6	1	2	24 seats

(as of municipal election on 13 June 2004)

Town partnerships

Höhr-Grenzhausen maintains partnerships with these towns: Laigueglia

Laigueglia

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, Riviera, Italy

Italy

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 (since 1972) Semur-en-Auxois

Semur-en-Auxois

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, Burgundy

Bourgogne

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, France

France

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 (since 1987)

Museums

In the town are found the Westerwald Ceramics Museum (Keramikmuseum Westerwald) and a museum of the town’s history.

Buildings

• Evangelical church
  Evangelical Church in Germany
  The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
  
  
• Grenzau Castle
• Limes Germanicus, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in particular the Ferbach fort

Sport

Höhr-Grenzhausen’s outlying centre of Grenzau is home to the TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau, a table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 club involved in Bundesliga play. Likewise, the Rhineland-Palatinate table tennis Olympic base is found here.

Economy

RASTAL GmbH & Co. KG, which is a business established in Höhr-Grenzhausen, is one of Europe’s biggest manufacturers of decorated drinking vessels, especially beer glasses.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Anke Maggauer-Kirsche (1948- ), German lyricist
  Lyricist
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   and aphorist
  Aphorism
  An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates...
  
  
• Paul Zimmerling (1927–2006), ceramicist
• Karlheinz Zöller
  Karlheinz Zöller
  Karlheinz Zöller was a German flutist, and principal in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1960–1969 and 1976–1993.-Early life and education:Karlheinz Zöller was born in Höhr-Grenzhausen, near Frankfurt, Westerwald, Germany....
  
   (1928–2005), musician
• Manfred Reimann (1928- ), politician (SPD)

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