Brücken, Kusel
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Location of Brücken within Kusel district
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| Coordinates: 49°25′55″N 7°21′36″E / 49.43194°N 7.36000°ECoordinates: 49°25′55″N 7°21′36″E / 49.43194°N 7.36000°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Kusel | |
| Municipal assoc. | Oberes Glantal | |
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| • Mayor | Toni Guhmann | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8.13 km2 (3.14 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 247 m (810 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 2,146 | |
| • Density | 260/km2 (680/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 66904 | |
| Dialling codes | 06386 | |
| Vehicle registration | KUS | |
| Website | www.bruecken.de | |
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Brücken (Pfalz) 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, whose seat is in Schönenberg-Kübelberg.
The municipality lies in the Ohmbach valley in the Western Palatinate. Near the village, the Ohmbach turns from its southerly direction of flow to a more southeasterly one where the valley floor also broadens out. Here it has an elevation of some 240 m above sea level, whereas the higher residential areas reach almost 300 m above sea level. The higher elevations within municipal limits, meanwhile, reach heights of some 380 m in the northeast and 320 m in the southeast. Also flowing through the municipal area in the southeast, near the small homestead of Paulengrund is the Kohlbach. The Neumühle, originally a gristmill and from the late 19th century until after the Second World War a diamond-cutting workshop, stands in the village’s north in the Ohmbach valley, and the homestead of Fuchsgrund lies on the valley floor to the southeast. Wooded land stretches eastwards and northwards from the village, and is also found in the southwest. The galleries of former coalmines lie in the village’s northeast on the Dammfeld and the Buchwiese (rural cadastral names), at the Schenkelberg (mountain) and in the Schleckenborn. The municipal area measures 811 ha, of which 166 ha is wooded.
Brücken borders in the north on the municipality of Steinbach am Glan, in the northeast on the municipality of Börsborn, in the east on the municipality of Gries, in the south on the municipality of Schönenberg-Kübelberg, in the west on the municipality of Dittweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Ohmbach.
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