Heiligenroth is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The village lies roughly 3 km from Montabaur. In the immediate vicinity are found Ruppach-Goldhausen, Boden, Staudt, Wirzenborn and Großholbach. The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.
The council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
The approval to bear a coat of arms was granted by the government assistant on 21 March 1980. In the arms are a red watchtower on a silver background, and a golden lion rampant on a blue background. The watchtower still stands today in Heiligenroth. Formerly it stood alone, with a small church beside it. Only in 1782 was the church that stands today built onto the Romanesque tower. At that time, the tower served a defensive function, hence the loopholes, and it…