# Unnau

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**Unnau** 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

The community lies in the [Westerwald](/source/Westerwald) between [Limburg](/source/Limburg_an_der_Lahn) and [Siegen](/source/Siegen). Through the community flows the Große Nister. Unnau belongs to the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Bad Marienberg](/source/Bad_Marienberg_(Verbandsgemeinde)), a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Bad_Marienberg).

## History

In 1000, Unnau had its first documentary mention.

In 1969 came the merger of the until then three autonomous communities of Unnau, Korb and Stangenrod into the new greater community of Unnau.

## Politics

The municipal council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

## Economy and infrastructure

### Transport

North of the community runs *[Bundesstraße](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe)* 414, leading from [Hohenroth](/source/Hohenroth) to [Hachenburg](/source/Hachenburg). The nearest [Autobahn](/source/Autobahn) [interchange](/source/Interchange_(road)) is [Haiger](/source/Haiger)/[Burbach](/source/Burbach_(Siegerland)) on the [A 45](/source/Bundesautobahn_45) ([Dortmund](/source/Dortmund)–[Hanau](/source/Hanau)), some 24 km away. Unnau lies on the *Oberwesterwaldbahn* ([railway](/source/Railway)) to Limburg and Au (Sieg). From there, the cities of [Cologne](/source/Cologne), [Koblenz](/source/Koblenz), [Frankfurt am Main](/source/Frankfurt_am_Main) and [Wiesbaden](/source/Wiesbaden) may be reached directly. The nearest [InterCityExpress](/source/InterCityExpress) stop is the [railway station](/source/Railway_station) at Montabaur on the [Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line](/source/Cologne-Frankfurt_high-speed_rail_line).

## 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

- [Unnau in the collective municipality’s Web pages](https://web.archive.org/web/20071212183804/http://www.bad-marienberg.de/verwaltung/unnau.php) (in German)

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