Berglangenbach

Berglangenbach
Coat of arms
Berglangenbach
Location of Berglangenbach within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°35′58″N 7°15′9″E / 49.59944°N 7.25250°E / 49.59944; 7.25250Coordinates: 49°35′58″N 7°15′9″E / 49.59944°N 7.25250°E / 49.59944; 7.25250
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Baumholder
Government
• Mayor	Helmut Theis (SPD)
Area
• Total	5.73 km2 (2.21 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	445
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55776
Dialling codes	06789
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.berglangenbach.de

Berglangenbach 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 Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Berglangenbach belongs to the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, and lies between the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands, near the state boundary with the Saarland. Berglangenbach lies roughly 5 km west of Baumholder and 8 km southeast of Birkenfeld.

Berglangenbach’s municipal area measures 573 ha, of which, roughly, 21 ha is built up, 266 ha is given over to agriculture, 213 ha is wooded, 65 ha is designated greenbelt and 8 ha is areas dedicated to streets, parks and the like.

Clockwise from the north, these are Heimbach to the north, Fohren-Linden to the east, Rohrbach and Rückweiler to the south and Leitzweiler to the southwest.

Also belonging to Berglangenbach are the outlying homesteads of Bächelshöfe and Zinkweilerhof.

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.