Buborn

Buborn
Coat of arms
Buborn
Location of Buborn within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°38′11″N 7°32′28″E / 49.63639°N 7.54111°E / 49.63639; 7.54111Coordinates: 49°38′11″N 7°32′28″E / 49.63639°N 7.54111°E / 49.63639; 7.54111
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Martin Henning
Area
• Total	2.87 km2 (1.11 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	154
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67742
Dialling codes	06382
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	http://buborn.de.tp/

Buborn 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 Lauterecken-Wolfstein.

The municipality lies in the North Palatine Uplands in the Western Palatinate. The village sits at an elevation of roughly 280 m above sea level in a hollow on the banks of the Rötelbach at the edge of a plateau. Elevations around the village reach heights of about 350 m above sea level. The municipal area measures 287 ha, of which 6 ha is settled and 40 ha is wooded.

Buborn borders in the northeast on the municipality of Hausweiler, in the southeast on the municipality of Wiesweiler, in the south on the municipality of Offenbach-Hundheim, in the west on the municipality of Deimberg and in the northwest on the municipality of Herren-Sulzbach. Buborn also meets the municipality of Grumbach at a single point in the north.

Also belonging to Buborn are three outlying Aussiedlerhöfe (a farming settlement established most often after the Second World War).

Buborn is a clump village that has been thrust together, one with old buildings, and with a north-south through road cutting through it. The small graveyard lies at the village’s south end. All together, there is very little in the way of new building.

While it is assumed that the area around the village was already settled in prehistoric times, there are no archaeological finds bearing witness to this. What is known, however, is that the foundations of a Roman villa rustica are to be found within the municipality. Unearthed there were wall remnants, urns and pots from Roman times. In this vicinity, too, it is likely that a village known as Guckenhausen later lay, although it is not thought that this represents a continuity in settlement from Roman times to the Early Middle Ages.