Borod is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
On the western boundary of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg – a kind of collective municipality – in the northwestern Westerwaldkreis lies the community of Borod in a side valley of the river Wied. The community stretches from the bonemill on the Wied in a southwesterly direction. Borod belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The community has an area of 314 ha, of which 101 ha is wooded and 272 ha is given over to agriculture, The rest is the built-up area. The community’s elevation ranges between 248 and 336 m above sea level. The yearly average temperature is roughly 8 °C. Yearly average precipitation is 900 mm. The high proportion of wooded land guarantees a great wealth of water. The landscape’s diversity with its extensive forests, many hedgerows and groves and good water-conducting vegetation form the…