Uhler is an ''

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'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis is a district (german: Kreis) in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Coc ...

(

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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies on a ridge in the central

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, roughly 12 km southeast of the

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, 3 km north of Kastellaun and 2 km north of the ('Hunsrück Heights Road', a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on

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’s orders). Also belonging to Uhler are the outlying homesteads of Gräfenmühle, Junkersmühle, Neumühle and Sulzmühle.

History

In 1200, Uhler had its first documentary mention in a document from St. Maximin’s Abbey in

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as '. Uhler belonged to the “Three-Lord Court” in

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. Beginning in 1794, Uhler lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of

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at the

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. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded

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Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of six council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

Uhler's mayor is Hans-Herbert Laux.

Coat of arms

The municipality's

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might be described thus: Below a chief countercompony gules and argent, tierced in mantle, dexter argent an eagle's sinister wing sable, sinister argent a cross of the first and in base gules a bugle-horn of the second. The arms refer to the lords of the "Three-Lord Court" in Beltheim. The

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, namely the band at the top of the escutcheon with the two-row chequered pattern (“countercompony”), stands for the Counts of Sponheim, the red cross on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side for the

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and the bugle-horn for the Lords of Braunshorn. The

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on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the eagle's wing, was an heraldic device borne by the knightly family of Keyser von "Owilre".

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in

’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-Hunsrück district
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church, Hauptstraße 25A –

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, about 1700, conversion marked 1799, Romanesque west tower, raised about 1800; whole complex of buildings with square * Hauptstraße 26 –

timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

(a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), half-hipped roof, 18th century * Sulzmühle, northwest of Uhler – timber-frame house, clapboard, marked 1726;

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and

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s preserved

References

External links

Municipality’s official webpage
{{Authority control Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis