Brücken, Birkenfeld
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Location of Brücken within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°38′16.40″N 7°6′41.41″E / 49.6378889°N 7.1115028°ECoordinates: 49°38′16.40″N 7°6′41.41″E / 49.6378889°N 7.1115028°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Birkenfeld | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Karl-Otto Engel | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 13.62 km2 (5.26 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 405 m (1,329 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 1,168 | |
| • Density | 86/km2 (220/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55767 | |
| Dialling codes | 06782 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.bruecken-nahe.de/ | |
Brücken 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 Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies on the Traunbach in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 62.3% wooded. Within Brücken’s limits, on the Friedrichskopf, rises the Allbach, whose upper reaches bear the name Königsbach. Six kilometres to the west of Brücken lies the Saarland. Together with the outlying centre of Traunen, which was merged with the municipality in 1934, the population is almost 1,300.
The municipality’s Ortsteile are Brücken (main centre) and Traunen. Also belonging to Brücken is the outlying homestead of Friesenhof.
Yearly precipitation in Brücken amounts to 1 021 mm, which is very high, falling into the highest fourth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 86% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is July. The most rainfall comes in December. In that month, precipitation is 1.8 times what it is in July. Precipitation varies greatly. Only at 18% of the weather stations are higher seasonal swings recorded.
Dating from as early as the late Bronze Age in the 1st millennium BC, the so-called New Hallstatt times, are some potsherds and parts of metal torcs found near what is now Brücken, which suggests that there was a settlement along the Middle Traunbach at the time. Whether it was a permanent one cannot be determined. This settlement might have been built on the important trade road that crossed the Traunbach near Brücken. Such crossings – bridges or fords – are well known to have been favourite locations for settlements.
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