Börsborn

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Börsborn

Location of Börsborn within Kusel district

Coordinates: 49°26′29″N 7°23′59″E / 49.44139°N 7.39972°ECoordinates: 49°26′29″N 7°23′59″E / 49.44139°N 7.39972°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Franz Sommer

Area

• Total

3.90 km² (1.51 sq mi)

Elevation

302 m (991 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

412

• Density

110/km² (270/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

66904

06383

KUS

Website

www.boersborn-online.de

Börsborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Oberes Glantal.

The more than 500-year-old Muhleiche, an oak tree in the village’s north end by the road going towards Steinbach am Glan and the belltower endowed by Countess Marianne von der Leyen in 1788-1789 are the village’s main landmarks.

Börsborn lies on the southeast slope of the 400 m-high Steinberg some 300 to 340 m above sea level in the Western Palatinate. The western part of the municipality reaches an elevation of some 275 m above sea level. Rising both west and east of the village are small brooks that then flow south or east for only a few kilometres before emptying into the Glan. The peaks around the village do not quite reach as high as the Steinberg, with the Klopfberg in the northeast reaching 388 m above sea level and Auf der Hub in the west peaking at 20 m lower than that. The Ohmbachsee, a reservoir south of the neighbouring village of Gries, lies only some 3 km away. The municipal area measures 390 ha, of which 70 ha is wooded.

Börsborn borders in the north on the municipality of Henschtal, in the east on the municipality of Nanzdietschweiler, in the south on the municipality of Gries, in the southwest on the municipality of Brücken and in the west on the municipality of Steinbach am Glan.

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