Bockenau

Bockenau
Coat of arms
Bockenau
Location of Bockenau within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°50′12″N 7°40′46″E / 49.83667°N 7.67944°E / 49.83667; 7.67944Coordinates: 49°50′12″N 7°40′46″E / 49.83667°N 7.67944°E / 49.83667; 7.67944
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Rüdesheim
Government
• Mayor	Jürgen Klotz (SPD)
Area
• Total	9.66 km2 (3.73 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,233
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55595
Dialling codes	06758
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.bockenau.de

Bockenau 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 Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe. Bockenau is a state-recognized tourism centre.

Bockenau lies at the south edge of the Hunsrück in the Ellerbach valley at the 380 m-high Wingertsberg and is enclosed by the Soonwald foothills, whose highest elevation is the Ellerspring at 657 m above sea level, which is also where the Ellerbach, which passes through Bockenau, rises. The village thus lies geographically in the scenically interesting and to a great extent untouched Gauchswald (forest). As a whole, the countryside is known as the Bockenauer Schweiz ("Bockenau Switzerland"), as reflected in the name borne by the village’s sport and event centre. The municipal area measures 9.66 km².

Clockwise from the north, Bockenau’s neighbours are the municipality of Allenfeld, the municipality of Sponheim, the municipality of Burgsponheim, the municipality of Waldböckelheim, the municipality of Nußbaum, the municipality of Daubach, the municipality of Rehbach and the municipality of Winterburg.