Abtweiler
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Location of Abtweiler within Bad Kreuznach district
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| Coordinates: 49°44′43″N 07°39′29″E / 49.74528°N 7.65806°ECoordinates: 49°44′43″N 07°39′29″E / 49.74528°N 7.65806°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Municipal assoc. | Meisenheim | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Peter Michel | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.76 km2 (2.22 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 226 m (741 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 206 | |
| • Density | 36/km2 (93/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55568 | |
| Dialling codes | 06753 | |
| Vehicle registration | KH | |
| Website | www.abtweiler.de | |
Abtweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Abtweiler lies in the Naheland, a small part of the North Palatine Uplands between the rivers Nahe and Glan up a side valley of the Glan. It is a linear village (by some definitions, a “thorpe”) in the south of the district, and lies on the left side of the lower Glan valley. It lies between Meisenheim and Bad Sobernheim. The countryside is mainly characterized by cropfields and woodland, along with some meadow orchards.
As at 31 December 2012, the various uses of Abtweiler’s 5.76 km² of land broke down thus:
Abtweiler borders in the north on the town of Bad Sobernheim on the river Nahe, in the east on the municipality of Rehborn, in the south on the municipality of Raumbach and in the west on the municipality of Lauschied.
Also belonging to Abtweiler are the outlying homesteads of Hühnerhof (also called “Hienerhof” or “Hingelshof”) and Sankt Antoniushof (also called “Danteshof”).
As one of the biggest intermontane Late Variscan basins, the Saar–Nahe Basin formed in the transitional time between Namurian and Westphalian in the Pennsylvanian subperiod roughly 317,000,000 years ago. What lies at the surface of it today comprises an area of only some 100 by 40 kilometres. Indeed, the basin itself is actually only part of a much greater formation, in broad areas overlain with newer deposits, called the Lorraine-Saar-Nahe-Hesse Trough. In Rhineland-Palatinate, outcrops of Permian-Carboniferous rock can be found in the northern Palatinate and the Nahe Uplands (where Abtweiler lies), stretching over to the Bingen-Alzey area. In its central area, the basin has thick Permian-Carboniferous sedimentary and volcanic rock (thus igneous) deposits up to 8 km thick, of which roughly 4.5 km comes from the Pennsylvanian and more than 3 km comes from the Rotliegend.
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