# Maxsain

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**Maxsain** is an *Ortsgemeinde* – a community belonging to a *[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)* – in the [Westerwaldkreis](/source/Westerwaldkreis) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany).

## Geography

### Location

The community lies between the district seat of [Montabaur](/source/Montabaur) und [Hachenburg](/source/Hachenburg). It lies on a brook, the Saynbach, which is joined in the middle of the village by its tributary the Steinchesbach. The nearest town is [Selters](/source/Selters_(Westerwald)), 3 km away. The community is part of the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Selters](/source/Selters_(Verbandsgemeinde)), a kind of collective municipality.

### Constituent communities

The community of Maxsain consists of the centres of Maxsain and Zürbach, which lies some 3 km to the east of the main centre and has about 60 inhabitants. The centre was amalgamated into the community of Maxsain with administrative reform in 1974. Worth seeing are the [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) [church](/source/Church_(building)) and the *Backes* community house in the village centre.

## History

In 1194, Maxsain had its first documentary mention. The name's spelling changed over the centuries from *Machseine* to *Maxeine* and then *Makeseyne*. In 1972, in the course of municipal restructuring, the *Verbandsgemeinde* of Selters was founded, to which Maxsain belongs.

## Politics

The municipal council is made up of 16 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (*Ortsbürgermeister*), who were elected in a [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

## Music

No longer imaginable is the community without the "Maxsainer Blaskapelle e.V.", founded in 1985. The club, with its roughly 40 [musicians](/source/Musician) and wind [orchestra](/source/Orchestra) is a fixture in the community and moreover, it furthers musical ability among the community's children and youth with its youth orchestra, [flute](/source/Flute) groups and musical early education. Besides engagements within Maxsain, such as at the traditional [kermis](/source/Kermis), the Maxsainer Blaskapelle is now more often to be heard at great shooting festivals, in kermis parades and at [concerts](/source/Concert). Among the yearly highlights is a collective concert performed together with music clubs from [Sessenhausen](/source/Sessenhausen) and [Helferskirchen](/source/Helferskirchen), which is always held on the first Saturday in November. The overall musical leadership has lain since 2005 in Christoph Zirfas's hands.

## Economy and infrastructure

### Transport

The community lies west of *[Bundesstraße](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe)* 8, leading from [Limburg an der Lahn](/source/Limburg_an_der_Lahn) to [Siegburg](/source/Siegburg). The nearest [Autobahn](/source/Autobahn) [interchange](/source/Interchange_(road)) is *[Mogendorf](/source/Mogendorf)* on the [A 3](/source/Bundesautobahn_3) ([Cologne](/source/Cologne)–[Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt_am_Main)). The nearest [railway station](/source/Railway_station) is *[Siershahn](/source/Siershahn)* on the *Unterwesterwaldbahn* (railway), which runs to [Limburg](/source/Limburg_an_der_Lahn). The nearest [InterCityExpress](/source/InterCityExpress) stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the [Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line](/source/Cologne-Frankfurt_high-speed_rail_line).

### Public institutions

There is a campground with an outdoor swimming pool within Maxsain's municipal area.

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1430000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.

## External links

- [Maxsain in the collective municipality’s Web pages](https://web.archive.org/web/20050524233429/http://www.selters-ww.de/gemeinden/maxsain/start.html) (in German)

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