Buhlenberg

Buhlenberg

Coat of arms
Buhlenberg

Coordinates: 49°39′17″N 7°7′11″E / 49.65472°N 7.11972°E / 49.65472; 7.11972Coordinates: 49°39′17″N 7°7′11″E / 49.65472°N 7.11972°E / 49.65472; 7.11972
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc. Birkenfeld
Government
 • Mayor Dieter Pilger
Area
 • Total 8.44 km2 (3.26 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
 • Total 476
 • Density 56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 55767
Dialling codes 06782
Vehicle registration BIR

Buhlenberg 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 Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies three kilometres northwest of the district seat of Birkenfeld in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück, on the edge of the Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück near the Erbeskopf, Rhineland-Palatinate's highest mountain.

Constituent communities

Also belonging to Buhlenberg are the outlying homesteads of Berghof, Etzweilerhof, Grenzhof and Waldhof.[2]

History

Buhlenberg once belonged to the "Hinder" County of Sponheim.

From 29 July to 8 August 2009, the Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder held its National Scout Jamboree in Buhlenberg.[3]

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 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[4]

Mayor

Buhlenberg's mayor is Dieter Pilger, and his deputies are Kurt Müller and Kurt Schulz.[5]

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne rot-silbern geschacht, hinten in Silber über blauem Dreiberg ein blauer Wolfskopf.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per bend sinister chequy of gules and argent and argent issuant from base a mound of three, above which a wolf’s head caboshed, both azure.

The “chequy” pattern on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, Oberamt of Birkenfeld. The charge in base on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, known in German heraldry as a Dreiberg, is in part canting for the village's name, at least for the last syllable, for Berg means "mountain" in German, and it also refers to the village's high elevation and the Gebück mountain ridge. The wolf's head refers to the Wolfskaul, an area within municipal limits where there was once a wolf-catching pit.

The arms have been borne since 26 August 1963.[6]

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[7]

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

To the east runs Bundesstraße 269, and to the south runs the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier). Serving nearby Neubrücke is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway.

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2013". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2014.
  2. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Amtliches Verzeichnis der Gemeinden und Gemeindeteile, Seite 19 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Bundeslager 2009 in Buhlenberg
  4. ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
  5. ↑ Buhlenberg’s council
  6. ↑ Description and explanation of Buhlenberg’s arms
  7. ↑ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district

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