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Wolfstein (Verbandsgemeinde)
Wolfstein () is a former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' was in Wolfstein. On 1 July 2014 it merged into the new ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Wolfstein consisted of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): # Aschbach # Einöllen # Eßweiler # Hefersweiler # Hinzweiler # Jettenbach # Kreimbach-Kaulbach # Nußbach # Oberweiler im Tal # Oberweiler-Tiefenbach # Reipoltskirchen # Relsberg # Rothselberg # Rutsweiler an der Lauter Rutsweiler an der Lauter is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel (district), Kusel Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Pal ... # Wolfstein External linksOfficial w ... [...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] |
Kreimbach-Kaulbach
Kreimbach-Kaulbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location The municipality lies on the river Lauter (also called the Waldlauter, to distinguish it from other rivers in German-speaking Europe named Lauter), southeast of the Königsberg in the North Palatine Uplands. Kreimbach lies on the river’s right bank at an elevation of some 198 m above sea level near where the namesake brook, the Kreimbach, flowing by from the northeast, empties into the Lauter. The flat lands before the slopes leading up the Kreimberg (390 m) and the Kreimbacher Kalmit (408 m) together with the Leisberghügel (hill) are broader than the Kaulbach floodplain on the left bank because the lower end of the Kreimbach cuts through them, coming from the east. The Kreimberg is “torn up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutsweiler An Der Lauter
Rutsweiler an der Lauter is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel (district), Kusel Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein, ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Rutsweiler an der Lauter is one of two places in the Kusel district named Rutsweiler. The other is Rutsweiler am Glan, lying some 13 km to the west-southwest. Geography Location The municipality lies on the river Lauter (Glan), Lauter's valley in the Western Palatinate (region), Palatinate. Rutsweiler an der Lauter lies north of Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Wolfstein at an elevation of some 200 m above sea level on the Lauter's left bank at the outlying hills of the Königsberg and Selberg. Even within municipal limits, the hillsides reach some 400 m above sea level. Flowing from the Selberg is the Kettenbach, which em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothselberg
Rothselberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Rothselberg lies at the foot of the 546 m-high Selberg in the North Palatine Uplands. The village's elevation is some 340 m above sea level and it lies on the ridge between the Talbach and Lauter valleys. Near the village rises the Breitenbach, which flows into the Jettenbach about 3 km away to the northwest in Eßweiler. At the foot of the Selberg rises the Lammelbach, which flows through the ''Löffelmannsgraben'' and empties into the Lauter near the Schmeißbachermühle (a former mill). To the west, towards Jettenbach, the land rises up, peaking at the Eisenstein (460 m above sea level), while to the south, towards Kollweiler, it also rises, reaching the peak of the Galgenberg (“Gallows Mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relsberg
Relsberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Relsberg lies in the North Palatine Uplands on a ridge between the Lauter and Odenbach valleys at an elevation of some 360 m above sea level in the headwaters of some small streams that run to the Odenbach. The elevations in the immediate vicinity reach beyond 400 m above sea level. Not quite reaching this height on the Ordnance Survey map are the Bauschüttberg (399 m) and the Kahlenberg (396 m). The municipal area measures 381 ha, of which roughly 10 ha is settled and 46 ha is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Relsberg borders in the north on the municipality of Reipoltskirchen, in the northeast on the municipality of Hefersweiler, in the south on the municipality of Niederkirche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reipoltskirchen
Reipoltskirchen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Reipoltskirchen lies in the Odenbach valley in the north of the North Palatine Uplands at an elevation of some 200 m on a slight broadening of the valley floor. The mountains on either side of the valley climb rather steeply upwards, reaching more than 300 m above sea level on the right (east) bank and more than 400 m above sea level on the left (west) bank (Steinkopf 403.3 m, Platte 361 m, Galgenkopf 303 m). While the Ingweilerhof lies in the dale, along with the main centre, Ausbacherhof and Karlshof are to be found on the heights that stretch out between the Odenbach valley and Lauter valley to the west. The municipal area measures 652 ha, of which roughly 7 ha is set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberweiler-Tiefenbach
Oberweiler-Tiefenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Oberweiler-Tiefenbach lies on the river Lauter's right bank northeast of the Königsberg in the North Palatine Uplands. Originally two separate villages, the municipality's two centres lie at an elevation of some 185 m above sea level, Oberweiler lying farther upstream at the mill, and Tiefenbach lying farther downstream at the church standing near the mountain slope. Between the two centres flows the Breitbach, which then empties into the Lauter. The elevations east of the village reach heights of up to roughly 370 m above sea level (Eichelberg 368 m). The municipal area measures ha, of which roughly 15 ha is settled and 80 ha is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Oberweile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberweiler Im Tal
Oberweiler im Tal is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. In the south at the municipal limit with Eßweiler stands a ruined castle, the Sprengelburg, which was built about 1300. Geography Location Oberweiler im Tal, in the North Palatine Uplands, lies in the ''Eßweiler Tal'' (dale) at an elevation of some 205 m above sea level against the backdrop of the Königsberg to the east, up from a narrowing in the dale where the water from the Jettenbach flows down a steep slope onto the flatter land on the floor of the dale. Within Oberweiler's limits, the 568-metre Königsberg's outliers reach heights of more than 500 m above sea level. The hills on the dale's left bank, which rise up towards the Herrmannsberg, a 536-metre-high hill to the west, reach heights of some 350 m a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nußbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Nußbach (or ''Nussbach'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Nußbach lies in the valley of the like-named brook, the Nußbach (“Nutbrook”), which empties into the Odenbach some two kilometres downstream from the village, in the North Palatine Uplands. It sits at an elevation of some 200 m above sea level, although outlying elevations within municipal limits reach heights of almost 450 m above sea level (Galgenkopf 305 m, Flettersberg 366 m, Erlenberg 399 m, Anzenthaler Hüberl 420 m, Sohlberg 433 m, Roßberg 448 m). The road that runs by, ''Landesstraße'' 386, links the Odenbach valley with the Alsenz valley. The municipal area measures 811 ha, of which roughly 36 ha is settled and 105 ha is wooded. Neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jettenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Jettenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district which belongs to the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location Topographically, the municipality lies in the North Palatine Uplands. The original village of Jettenbach grew in the valley of an eponymous brook, the Jettenbach, from which it took its name. Quite early on, a mediaeval regular route linking Landstuhl to Trier following the nearby ridge running parallel to the brook was established as a roadway. To the south of the village rises the ''Spannagelberg'' (449.5 m above sea level) and to the north, the ''Potschberg'' (formerly 492 m above sea level). South of the village, the ''Rutzenbach'' and the ''Selchenbach'' streams flow together to form the ''Jettenbach'', which then flows north through the village, later emptying into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kusel (district)
Kusel () is a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north-west clockwise) Birkenfeld, Bad Kreuznach, Donnersbergkreis, Kaiserslautern, Saarpfalz and Sankt Wendel (the last two belonging to the state of Saarland). History The district of Kusel was created at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1939 it was renamed as ''Landkreis Kusel''. The boundary was altered slightly as part of the communal reform of 1969/72 with some parts of the district of Birkenfeld being added to Kusel. Geography The district of Kusel lies in the North Palatine Uplands (''Nordpfälzer Bergland''), to the north of the industrial areas of the Saarland. The largest rivers are the Lauter (also called the Waldlauter, to distinguish it from other rivers in German-speaking Europe named Lauter) and the Glan. Coat of arms The German blazon reads: ''Gespalten: Vorne in Schwarz ein linksgewendeter, rot bewehrter goldener Löwe, hinten in Silber ein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinzweiler
Hinzweiler () is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein. Geography Location The municipality lies in the ''Eßweiler Tal'' (dale) northwest of the Königsberg (mountain) in the North Palatine Uplands at an elevation of some 200 m above sea level. Elevations on the right bank at the Königsberg reach above 500 m above sea level (Leienberg 524 m). On the left bank, they reach only a bit more than 300 m above sea level (Spenzelberg 305 m). The municipal area measures 532 ha, of which roughly 32 ha is settled and 200 ha is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Hinzweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Nerzweiler, in the east on the municipality of Aschbach, in the south on the municipality of Oberweiler im Tal, in the west on the municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
