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Braunweiler

Braunweiler
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Coat of arms of Braunweiler
Coat of arms
Braunweiler   is located in Germany
Braunweiler
Braunweiler
Coordinates: 49°52′0″N 7°44′42″E / 49.86667°N 7.74500°E / 49.86667; 7.74500Coordinates: 49°52′0″N 7°44′42″E / 49.86667°N 7.74500°E / 49.86667; 7.74500
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc. Rüdesheim
Government
 • Mayor Horst Wies
Area
 • Total 4.68 km2 (1.81 sq mi)
Elevation 257 m (843 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 624
 • Density 130/km2 (350/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 55595
Dialling codes 06706
Vehicle registration KH
Website www.braunweiler.de

Braunweiler 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. Braunweiler is a winegrowing village.

Braunweiler lies in the Naheland – the land lining both sides of the Nahe – right at the edge of the Gauchswald (forest) and therefore also the Hunsrück. It sits on a spur overlooking its vineyards. Braunweiler’s elevation is 275 m above sea level and the municipal area measures 4.68 km².

Clockwise from the north, Braunweiler’s neighbours are the municipality of Wallhausen, the municipality of Sommerloch, the municipality of Sankt Katharinen, the municipality of Mandel, the municipality of Sponheim and the municipality of Argenschwang. However, of these places, only Sommerloch and Sankt Katharinen are linked to Braunweiler by road (Kreisstraße 51 in both cases).

Also belonging to Braunweiler is the outlying homestead of Haus Bock.


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