Argenthal

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Argenthal

Location of Argenthal within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 49°58′32″N 7°35′56″E / 49.97556°N 7.59889°ECoordinates: 49°58′32″N 7°35′56″E / 49.97556°N 7.59889°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Heinz-Otto Kretzschmar

Area

• Total

28.52 km² (11.01 sq mi)

Elevation

458 m (1,503 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,619

• Density

57/km² (150/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55496

06761

SIM

Website

www.argenthal.de

Argenthal is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Argenthal lies on the northwest edge of the Soonwald, a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück, which reaches an elevation of 657 m above sea level and is part of the Rhenish Massif. Major centres in the nearby area are Simmern to the west and Rheinböllen to the east.

Argenthal’s highest elevation is the Schanzerkopf at 643 m above sea level. Also within municipal limits is the Waldsee, a bathing pond that arose from an old ore strip mine that was shut down in 1935.

Argenthal is one of the bigger centres in the Hunsrück in which only a few people still work the land. Most of the municipality’s inhabitants earn livelihoods as blue- or white-collar workers, officials, handcrafters, business operators and soldiers.

With a total surface area of 28.52 km², of which 19.85 km² is wooded (the Soonwald), Argenthal’s municipal area is, after Boppard’s, the district’s second biggest.

In 1091, the municipality had its first documentary mention as Argantal. The overlord was the Count Palatine of the Rhine. Beginning in 1794, Argenthal lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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