{{Infobox German location |name = Freilingen |image_photo = Freilingen2.jpg |image_coa =DEU Freilingen COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|50|33|39|N|7|50|13|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Freilingen im Westerwaldkreis.png |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |district = Westerwaldkreis |Verbandsgemeinde = Selters (Westerwald) |elevation = 385 |area = 3.67 |postal_code = 56244 |area_code = 02666 |licence = WW |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 018 |website = [http://www.freilingen.de/ www.freilingen.de] |mayor = Thomas Kloft<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1430000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2019–24 }} '''Freilingen''' is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The municipality belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Selters, a kind of collective municipality.
==Geography==
Freilingen lies 7 km from Selters on the Westerwald Lake Plateau, a popular holiday and recreation area. The locality offers many hiking and cycling trails. The Freilinger Weiher (lake), the so-called Postweiher, is open to bathing in summer.
==History== In 1034, Freilingen had its first documentary mention as ''Vriligoim''. In 1972, in the course of municipal restructuring, the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Selters was founded.
==Politics==
The municipal council is made up of 12 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (''Ortsbürgermeister''), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
==Economy and infrastructure==
The municipality lies right on ''Bundesstraße'' 8 leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is ''Mogendorf'' on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{in lang|de}} [http://www.freilingen.de/ Freilingen] *{{in lang|de}} [http://www.selters-ww.de/ Verbandsgemeinde Selters (Westerwald)]
{{Cities and towns in Westerwaldkreis (district)}}
{{Authority control}} Category:Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate Category:Westerwaldkreis
{{Westerwaldkreis-geo-stub}}