Oberhosenbach | |
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Coordinates: 49°48′52″N 07°19′53″E / 49.81444°N 7.33139°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Birkenfeld |
Municipal assoc. | Herrstein-Rhaunen |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Kirsten Beetz [1] |
Area | |
• Total | 4.14 km2 (1.60 sq mi) |
Elevation | 430 m (1,410 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)
[2] | |
• Total | 123 |
• Density | 30/km2 (77/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+02:00 ( CEST) |
Postal codes | 55758 |
Dialling codes | 06785 |
Vehicle registration | BIR |
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 Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in Herrstein.
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.
In 1318, Oberhosenbach had its first documentary mention as Volmarshusenbach.
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. [3]
Oberhosenbach's mayor is Kirsten Beetz, and her deputies are Reinhold Noll and Gabriele Wolter. [4]
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.
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: [5]
Running south of the municipality is Bundesstraße 41. Serving nearby Fischbach is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen– Saarbrücken).