{{Infobox German location |image_photo = Oberrod2.jpg |image_coa =DEU Oberrod COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|50|35|6|N|8|7|38|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Oberrod im Westerwaldkreis.png |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |district = Westerwaldkreis |Verbandsgemeinde = Rennerod |elevation = 430 |area = 6.72 |postal_code = 56479 |area_code = 02664 |licence = WW |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 282 |website = [http://www.rennerod.de/rpn/vg_rennerod/haupt/gemeinden/uebersicht/gemeindeliste/gemeindeliste/oberrod/index.phtml www.rennerod.de] |mayor = Thomas Wüst<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 }} '''Oberrod''' is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
==Geography==
The community lies in the Westerwald on the boundary with Hesse. The nearest sizeable towns are Siegen (34 km to the north), Wetzlar (27 km to the east) and Limburg an der Lahn (24 km to the south). Through the community flows the Lasterbach. Oberrod belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
==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.
==Regular events== One of the oldest clubs is the ''Schützenverein St. Hubertus 1910 Oberrod e.V. '' (shooting club). Each year at Whitsun the club stages a three-day shooting festival.
A further highlight is the so-called ''Backes- und Brunnenfest'' (“Bakehouse and Well Festival”), which takes place from 18 to 20 August at the village well. To eat there is, among other things, the so-called "Flappeskuchen", which is baked in the traditional way in a quaint woodburning oven.
==Economy and infrastructure==
East of the community runs ''Bundesstraße'' 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is ''Herborn'' on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 23 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.oberrod.de Unofficial website of the Ortsgemeinde of Oberrod] {{in lang|de}} *[http://www.rennerod.de/rpn/vg_rennerod/haupt/gemeinden/uebersicht/gemeindeliste/gemeindeliste/oberrod/index.phtmlphtml Oberrod in the collective municipality’s Web pages]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|de}}
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