{{Infobox German location |image_photo = Kroppach3.jpg |image_coa =DEU Kroppach COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|50|41|44|N|7|44|25|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Kroppach im Westerwaldkreis.png |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |district = Westerwaldkreis |Verbandsgemeinde = Hachenburg |elevation = 319 |area = 3.97 |postal_code = 57612 |area_code = 02688 |licence = WW |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 250 |website = [http://www.gemeinde-kroppach.de/ www.gemeinde-kroppach.de] |mayor = Michael Birk<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 }} '''Kroppach''' is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The agriculturally structured residential community of Kroppach belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
==Geography==
The community lies between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen and is described as the gateway to the Kroppach Switzerland nature and landscape conservation area.
==History== In 1199, Kroppach had its first documentary mention. In 1999, this event was the subject of a celebratory publication (''Festschrift''<!--Don’t link it; the en:WP describes something different.-->). Kroppach was for a long time the seat of a tithe court and had its own court seal. In 1661, a so-called ''Kirchspiel-Winterschule'' (“parish winter school”) was established, which 70 years later, beginning in 1731, was also run the year round.
==Politics==
The municipal council is made up of 12 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
==Culture and sightseeing==
===Parks=== The local recreation area, called the ''Kroppacher Schweiz'', or “Kroppach Switzerland”, with its many hiking paths and panoramas into the Nister Valley is a recognized nature and landscape conservation area.
==Economy and infrastructure== The train station named "Ingelbach" of the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway is located at the border of Kroppach and Ingelbach. South of the community runs ''Bundesstraße'' 414, leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Gießen). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.gemeinde-kroppach.de/ Kroppach] {{in lang|de}}
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