Bannberscheid

Bannberscheid
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Bannberscheid within Westerwaldkreis district
Bannberscheid Show map of Germany Bannberscheid Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°28′28″N 7°50′16″E / 50.47444°N 7.83778°E / 50.47444; 7.83778
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Wirges
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Georg Holl[1]
Area
• Total	1.88 km2 (0.73 sq mi)
Elevation	260 m (850 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	683
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56424
Dialling codes	02602
Vehicle registration	WW

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

The municipality lies north of Montabaur some 260 m in elevation in meadowland with a gradually climbing slope, within the low mountain landscape of the Westerwald, which is framed by the high Westerwald and the Montabaur Heights (Montabaurer Höhenzug). Since 1971 the municipality has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality.

In 1211, Bannberscheid had its first documentary mention. From 1895 to 1897, the village church was built. The municipality was electrified in 1921 and in 1937 it was connected to the sewer system. Until the 1960s, clay quarrying was the municipality's main source of income.

The council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

The municipality's arms were introduced in 1992 upon a decision by the council. They show a bend sinister of silver and red dividing the field into blue and gold. Above is a gold waterwheel and below along the shield's edge are three blue steps.

West of the municipality runs Bundesstraße 255, which leads from Montabaur to Rennerod. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt am Main), some 3 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is at the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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