Malmeneich is a village in

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. It belongs to the municipality of Elz. Its post code is 65604 and its dialing code is 06433. It has 345 inhabitants.

Geography and climate

Malmeneich lies in the

Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif ( or Rhenish ...

. Its average elevation is 250 m above

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. The highest point lies in the forest and is 292 m high. The average temperature is 9,9 °C and it rains 700–720 mm a year. Though this seems moderate, temperatures can vary between −20 °C and 35 °C.

Malmeneich and the media

There was an entry about Malmeneich in the Hessian television in 2002. This was for a project of

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which aimed to report about Hessian villages with less than 1,000 inhabitants. Every year Malmeneich is mentioned in the regional newspaper because of the "Malmeneicher Kirmes". At the

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in 2005 there was a crime in Malmeneich. A citizen went to elect five times. He got judged and this crime went through the regional media.

External links

Official website of the municipality of Elz
German) Villages in Hesse {{Hesse-geo-stub