Elsoff

This article is about the municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. For the river in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, Germany, see Elsoff (river).
Elsoff
Municipality
Coat of arms of Elsoff
Coat of arms
Location of Elsoff within Westerwaldkreis district

Map
Location of Elsoff
Elsoff is located in Germany
Elsoff
Elsoff
Elsoff is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Elsoff
Elsoff
Coordinates: 50°34′33″N 8°06′58″E / 50.57583°N 8.11611°E / 50.57583; 8.11611
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictWesterwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.Rennerod
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Kornelia Jex[1]
Area
 • Total
9.44 km2 (3.64 sq mi)
Elevation
370 m (1,210 ft)
Population
 (2024-12-31)[2]
 • Total
984
 • Density104/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
56479
Dialling codes02664
Vehicle registrationWW
Websitewww.elsoff.de

Elsoff is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

The municipality lies in the Westerwald between Siegen (35 km to the north), Wetzlar (28 km to the east) and Limburg an der Lahn (22 km to the south). Elsoff belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.

Politics

The municipal council is made up of 6 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

The patriarch of the American Hiester family political dynasty Daniel Hiester emigrated from Elsoff in 1737.

Culture and sightseeing

Elsoff has listed cultural sites.[3] The listing is divided into Elsoff and Mittelhofen, as they were previously independent municipalities.

Elsoff (Westerwald)
  • Catholic parish church St. Peter and Paul in Kirchstrasse 19. A late historism basalt quarry stone hall with three naves, occupied in 1911. The church has a medieval tower and a grave cross (probably built in 1684), on pillars from the year 1779. Additionally a war memorial was established during 1914/18.
  • A wayside shrine probably built in the 19th century, southeast of the village, on the road to Mengerskirchen.
  • A Stations of the Cross, established in 1898, between two gates with a high cross built in 1990. Graveside settlements from the 20th century are situated there too.
Elsoff (Westerwald) – Mittelhofen
  • A catholic branch church with a simple hall construction from 1788.
Catholic branch church
  • A Half-timbered house, partly solid construction from the 18th century, still inhabited, with a cast iron fountain built in the 19th century at the Brunnenstrasse 11.
Half-timbered house and iron founatain
  • Wayside shrine probably built in the 19th century north of the village, along a country lane.
  • The Hof Krempel, a former manor with stately buildings around rectangular courtyard and partly half-timbered barn from the 18th century. The residential building and stable have a solid construction made in the 19th century.

Economy and infrastructure

West of the municipality runs Bundesstraße 54, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Aschaffenburg), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Westerwaldkreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand von Land, Landkreisen, Gemeinden und Verbandsgemeinden 2024 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2022)" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz.
  3. ^ Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (Ed.) Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler – Westerwaldkreis (Memento from 07.01.2021 in Internet Archive) Bergamo 2021 pp. 10 f. (PDF; 4,8 MB)
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