Norken

Norken
Norken
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	Norken
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Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Government
• Mayor	Friedrich-Wilhelm Wagner
Area
• Total	5.99 km2 (2.31 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	984
• Density	160/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	57629
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.norken.de

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

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. The community is also between the Große Nister and Kleine Nister. Norken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1262, Norken had its first documentary mention.

The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

At Easter, the traditional Eierschibbeln – a kind of Easter egg roll – is celebrated.

Running right near the community is Bundesstraße 414, leading from Herborn to Altenkirchen. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen and Wilnsdorf on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 26 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

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