Breitenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Location of Breitenthal within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°48′05″N 7°20′04″E / 49.80139°N 7.33444°ECoordinates: 49°48′05″N 7°20′04″E / 49.80139°N 7.33444°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein | |
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| • Mayor | Wolfgang Diel | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 3.68 km2 (1.42 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 410 m (1,350 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 310 | |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55758 | |
| Dialling codes | 06785 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.breitenthal.de | |
Breitenthal (Hunsrück) (Hunsrückisch: Bränel) 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 Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The municipality lies on the slope down from the Hunsrück into the Nahe valley south of the Idar Forest in an area facing east inside a bend in the river Hosenbach. In the southwest, the land slopes off steeply near the municipal limits into the Fischbach valley. Breitenthal’s range of elevations is 187 m, from its lowest point of 330 m above sea level at the foot of the Schielenbach (49°47′28″N 7°19′34″E / 49.79111°N 7.32611°E), to its highest of 517 m above sea level in the Sangwald/Jungenwald (forest; 49°48′21″N 7°18′30″E / 49.80583°N 7.30833°E).
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