Oberhosenbach

Oberhosenbach

Coat of arms
Oberhosenbach
Location of Oberhosenbach within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°48′52″N 07°19′53″E / 49.81444°N 7.33139°E / 49.81444; 7.33139Coordinates: 49°48′52″N 07°19′53″E / 49.81444°N 7.33139°E / 49.81444; 7.33139
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc. Herrstein
Government
 • Mayor Kirsten Beetz
Area
 • Total 4.14 km2 (1.60 sq mi)
Elevation 430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
 • Total 135
 • Density 33/km2 (84/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 55758
Dialling codes 06785
Vehicle registration BIR
Website www.vg-herrstein.de

Oberhosenbach 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 Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies roughly 18 km north of Idar-Oberstein near the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”) and the Hunsrück Schiefer- und Burgenstraße (“Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road”). Half the municipal area is wooded.

History

In 1318, Oberhosenbach had its first documentary mention as Volmarshusenbach.

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 chairwoman.[2]

Mayor

Oberhosenbach’s mayor is Kirsten Beetz, and her deputies are Reinhold Noll and Gabriele Wolter.[3]

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend vert a cross Latin Or and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[4]

  • Hauptstraße 9 – Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), Firstständer building, 1696
  • Hauptstraße 34 – Quereinhaus, 1903; bakehouse typical of the time of building

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Running south of the municipality is Bundesstraße 41. Serving nearby Fischbach is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).

References

  1. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz "Bevölkerungsstand 2017 - Gemeindeebene" Check |url= value (help). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2018.
  2. ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
  3. ↑ Oberhosenbach’s council
  4. ↑ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district


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