title: Heuzert
text: # Heuzert
  
  Heuzert is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The agriculturally structured residential community of Heuzert to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen, on the river Nister in the nature and landscape conservation area of the Kroppach Switzerland.
  
  ## History
  
  In 1286, Heuzert had its first documentary mention as Hutcenrothe.
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchanges are in Siegen, Wilnsdorf and Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund–Gießen). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
  
  