Hardt, Westerwaldkreis

Hardt
Hardt
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Hardt within Westerwaldkreis district
	Location of Hardt
	Hardt Hardt
	Coordinates: 50°38′07″N 7°55′12″E / 50.63528°N 7.92000°E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Gabriele Greis
Area
• Total	1.88 km2 (0.73 sq mi)
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population (2024-12-31)
• Total	452
• Density	240/km2 (623/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56472
Dialling codes	02661
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.bad-marienberg.de

Hardt (German pronunciation: [haʁt]) 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. The river Nister, which is part of the Sieg drainage basin, flows east to west through the municipal area. Hardt belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

The municipal council is made up of 8 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

The nearest Autobahn interchanges are Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt), some 27 km away, and Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 25 km away. Hardt used to have a stop at the Erbach - Fehl-Ritzhausen Railway which isnoutbof service nowadays, the nearest train stop today is Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station of the Limburg-Altenkirchen Railway. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.