Girod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Geography
Location
The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Gießen on the Eisenbach and on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
Constituent communities
Girod has one outlying Ortsteil named Kleinholbach. The two once autonomous villages are separated by the A 3.
History
In 1235, Girod had its first documentary mention.
Politics
The municipal council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Girod has a stop on the Lower Westerwald Railway (Unterwesterwaldbahn), Siershahn–Montabaur–Limburg, at which stop regional trains roughly every hour, run by DreiLänderBahn, a section of Hessische Landesbahn (HLB).
The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur and Diez on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), each 5 km away.
The local bus line 450 (Limburg - Diez - Monatabaur serves the village.
Marked hiking paths are around the community.
Nentershausen is located in the area of the local transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), in the Tarifwabe (zone) number 411.
The nearest long distance train stops are the railway stations at Limburg and Montabaur, each 12 km away, on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line, and Koblenz on the Rechte Rheinstrecke, some 40 km away.