Ettinghausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The municipality lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Hachenburg. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.
History In 1367, Ettinghausen had its first recorded mention, as Ittincusen.
Politics
The municipal council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Economy and infrastructure
Ettinghausen is served by the local busses.of the lines 477, 480 and 959 and locsted in the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), in the fare zone number 424.
Running right through the municipality is Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 10 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
There's a wind farm located on the area of Ettinghausen, Arnshöfen and Hahn am See.
References
External links Ettinghausen