Breitenau is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Breitenau belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Ransbach-Baumbach, a kind of collective municipality.
The community lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen on the rim of the Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park (Naturpark Rhein-Westerwald).
The village had its first mention in 1265 as Bredenowe. From 1343 until 1664 it belonged to the county of Isenburg, and then it passed to the Electorate of Trier. In 1802 it passed to the Duchy of Nassau, and eventually, in 1866, to Prussia.
The council is made up of 12 council members, including the honorary and presiding mayor (Ortsbürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Now having become an integral part of the community’s, and indeed the whole Haiderbach’s, life, the „St. Georgsbläser Haiderbach e.V.“ were founded in 1976. The club, with its 45-strong wind…