Callbach

Callbach
Coat of arms
Callbach
Location of Callbach within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°42′13″N 7°41′57″E / 49.70361°N 7.69917°E / 49.70361; 7.69917Coordinates: 49°42′13″N 7°41′57″E / 49.70361°N 7.69917°E / 49.70361; 7.69917
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Meisenheim
Government
• Mayor	Lothar Geib
Area
• Total	5.39 km2 (2.08 sq mi)
Elevation	223 m (732 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	367
• Density	68/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67829
Dialling codes	06753
Vehicle registration	KH

Callbach is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Callbach is a linear village (by some definitions, a “thorpe”) that lies in the North Palatine Uplands at the Eschelbach valley, a side dale of the Glan.

Clockwise from the north, Callbach’s neighbours are the municipalities of Rehborn, Unkenbach, Finkenbach-Gersweiler (both in the neighbouring Donnersbergkreis), Schmittweiler, Reiffelbach and the town of Meisenheim.

Also belonging to Callbach is the outlying homestead of Lindenhof.

After the Congress of Vienna, which about 1815 and the years that followed imposed a new political landscape on the region after Napoleonic French rule had ended, Callbach belonged to the Rheinkreis along with much of the Palatinate, a new exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria. It remained Bavarian until the end of the Second World War, since which time it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of administrative restructuring in this state in 1969, Callbach was transferred from the former Rockenhausen district (which was at the same time dissolved) to the Bad Kreuznach district, in which it still finds itself now. From an ecclesiastical standpoint, Callbach has long belonged to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant) and to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer.