{{other uses|Rothenbach (disambiguation)|Röthenbach (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox German location |image_photo = RothenbachWesterwald3.jpg |image_coa = |coordinates = {{coord|50|33|51|N|7|54|12|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Rothenbach im Westerwaldkreis.png |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |district = Westerwaldkreis |Verbandsgemeinde = Westerburg |elevation = 465 |area = 6.72 |postal_code = 56459 |area_code = 02663 |licence = WW |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 43 289 |divisions = 2 |website = [http://www.westerburger-land.de/haupt/gemeinden/uebersicht/unsere_gemeinden/ortsgemeinden/rothenbach/index.phtml www.westerburger-land.de] |mayor = Holger Bäcker<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 }}
'''Rothenbach''' is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
==Geography== Rothenbach lies 8 km west of Westerburg. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in Westerburg.
Rothenbach's ''Ortsteile'' are Rothenbach, Obersayn and Himburg.
==Politics== The council is made up of 13 council members, including the mayor (''Bürgermeister''), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
==Economy and infrastructure==
Right through the community runs ''Bundesstraße'' 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is ''Montabaur'' 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== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080304114534/http://www.westerburger-land.de/haupt/gemeinden/uebersicht/unsere_gemeinden/ortsgemeinden/rothenbach/index.phtml Rothenbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages] {{in lang|de}}
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