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Verbandsgemeinde Baumholder
Baumholder is a '' Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Baumholder. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Baumholder consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): # Baumholder # Berglangenbach # Berschweiler bei Baumholder # Eckersweiler # Fohren-Linden # Frauenberg # Hahnweiler # Heimbach # Leitzweiler # Mettweiler # Reichenbach # Rohrbach # Rückweiler # Ruschberg Ruschberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld (district), Birkenfeld Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinat ... Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate {{Birkenfeld-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhineland-Palatinate The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde) which comprise single settlements. Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was ''Amt''. Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. Saxony-Anhalt The 11 districts of Saxony-Anhalt are divided into ''Verwaltungsgemein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hahnweiler
Hahnweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück at the southwesternmost end of the Birkenfeld district and the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder. In the south it borders on the Saarland. With its 218 inhabitants – which includes those who hold only a secondary residence here – (as at 31 January 2011), Hahnweiler is the third smallest municipality in the ''Verbandsgemeinde''. By land area – the municipal area measures only 228.5 ha – it is the smallest. Its elevation ranges between 450 and 552 m above sea level. Neighbouring municipalities Hahnweiler borders in the northeast on Rückweiler, in the south on Freisen in the Saarland, in the west on Gimbweiler and Nohfelden-Wolf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rückweiler
Rückweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück, at Rhineland-Palatinate's boundary with the Saarland. The municipal area measures roughly 274 ha, and the elevation is 524 m above sea level. Neighbouring municipalities Rückweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Berglangenbach, in the east on the municipality of Rohrbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Freisen, in the southwest on the municipality of Hahnweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Leitzweiler. Rückweiler also meets the municipality of Gimbweiler to the west at a single point, which is also shared with two other municipalities. All municipalities named here are in the Birkenfeld district but f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohrbach, Birkenfeld
Rohrbach () is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies on the like-named Rohrbach south of the Nahe at the foot of the 548.5 m-high Wüschberg. Neighbouring municipalities Rohrbach borders in the north on the municipality of Berglangenbach, in the east on the municipalities of Fohren-Linden and Berschweiler bei Baumholder, in the south on the municipality of Freisen in the Saarland and in the west on the municipality of Rückweiler. History Names The villages of Rohrbach, Rückweiler, Hahnweiler and Leitzweiler bear the tag ''Auf der Heide'', although it is unclear why this is so. As in English, the words for “heath”, “heather” and “heathen” are similar to each other in German. Since ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichenbach, Birkenfeld
Reichenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies on the like-named brook, the Reichenbach, west of the 563 m-high Feldberg. The municipal area is 37.5% wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Reichenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Frauenberg, in the east on the Baumholder military drilling ground, in the south on the municipality of Ruschberg and in the west on the municipalities of Nohen and Kronweiler. Constituent communities Also belonging to Reichenbach are the outlying homesteads of Gerichtmannsmühle, Reichenbacherhöfe and Sonnenhof. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mettweiler
Mettweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France. The municipal area is 47% wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Mettweiler borders in the north on the town of Baumholder, in the southeast on the municipality of Thallichtenberg and in the west on the municipalities of Berschweiler bei Baumholder and Fohren-Linden. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Mayor Mettweiler's mayor is Ute Theiß. Coat of arms The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess argent issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leitzweiler
Leitzweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location Leitzweiler lies near the state boundary with the Saarland, roughly 3 km southeast of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach and 9 km west of Baumholder. The municipal area measures 3.02 km2, of which 30% is wooded. Constituent communities Also belonging to Leitzweiler is the outlying homestead of Lindenhof. Municipality’s name Leitzweiler was founded in the 8th or 9th century by nobility. At that time, all the places ending in ''—weiler'' were founded as a result of the growth in population. In Leitzweiler's case, the leading syllable would give a clue as to the founder's name. It was likely ''Leudoin'', for this was a very common name in the Early Middle Ages. History In 1440 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heimbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Heimbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, on the like-named brook, the Heimbach, in the Nahe valley between the towns of Idar-Oberstein, Baumholder and the district seat, Birkenfeld. Heimbach is at the western edge of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder. Neighbouring municipalities Heimbach borders in the north on the municipalities of Nohen and Reichenbach, in the east on the municipality of Ruschberg, in the south on the municipalities of Berglangenbach and Leitzweiler and in the west on the municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach. Constituent communities Also belonging to Heimbach are the outlying homesteads of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate
Frauenberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies on the upper Nahe between the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, and the Hunsrück. Neighbouring municipalities Frauenberg borders in the south on Reichenbach, in the west on Sonnenberg-Winnenberg, in the north on Idar-Oberstein and in the east on the Baumholder military reserve. History In early historical times, a road from Ausweiler – a now vanished village that was evacuated to make way for the military reserve in 1937 – passed by the Frauenburg (castle) and through the Nahe, running by way of Oberbrombach, Siesbach and Allenbach to the Moselle. Archaeological finds have established that there was a hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birkenfeld (district)
Birkenfeld () is a district (''Landkreis'') in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is the town of Birkenfeld. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Sankt Wendel (Saarland), Trier-Saarburg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bad Kreuznach and Kusel. History In the early nineteenth century, the Nahe River was the boundary between two tiny principalities: Birkenfeld, west of the Nahe; and Lichtenberg, east of it. The principality of Birkenfeld was annexed by Oldenburg in 1817; Lichtenberg became an exclave of the Duchy Saxe-Coburg (Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld until 1826, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha thereafter). Prussia bought Lichtenberg in 1834 and made it the District of Sankt Wendel. After World War I, the southern half of Sankt Wendel had to be ceded to the newly created Saar Territory, and the small part remaining in Prussia was then officially called the ''Restkreis Sankt Wendel'' ("remaining district of Sankt Wendel"). In 1937 the Oldenburgian Dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fohren-Linden
Fohren-Linden is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the southern Hunsrück in the Unnertal (Unnerbach valley) in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate near the state boundary with the Saarland. Constituent communities Also belonging to Fohren-Linden is the outlying homestead of Finkenmühle. History The municipality's name comes from two trees: the word ''Fohren'' is apparently a variant of the German word ''Föhre'' (“pine”, but cognate with the English word “fir”), while the second word, ''Linden'', is also used in English, alongside “lime” and “basswood”, for the tree of the genus ''Tilia'' that still characterizes the village today. It may be, though, that the first half of this hyphenated na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckersweiler
Eckersweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, on the boundary with the Saarland. Eckersweiler is the district's southernmost municipality. Neighbouring municipalities Eckersweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Berschweiler bei Baumholder, in the east on the municipality of Thallichtenberg ( Kusel district), in the south on the municipality of Reichweiler (Kusel district) and in the west on the municipality of Freisen (Sankt Wendel district, Saarland). Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
