Dierfeld

Dierfeld
Coat of arms
Dierfeld
Location of Dierfeld within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates: 50°05′04″N 06°53′24″E / 50.08444°N 6.89000°E / 50.08444; 6.89000Coordinates: 50°05′04″N 06°53′24″E / 50.08444°N 6.89000°E / 50.08444; 6.89000
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc.	Wittlich-Land
Government
• Mayor	Gerhard von Greve-Dierfeld
Area
• Total	1.54 km2 (0.59 sq mi)
Elevation	420 m (1,380 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	12
• Density	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54533
Dialling codes	06572
Vehicle registration	WIL
Website	www.dierfeld.de

Dierfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Among Germany’s smallest municipalities, it holds second place.

Dierfeld can only be reached from the west over a small road that links the place with Laufeld. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land.

Besides Laufeld, the other neighbours are Wallscheid, Mückeln, Oberscheidweiler, Hasborn, Niederöfflingen and Oberöfflingen.

Dierfeld arose from a hunting lodge that the Counts of Manderscheid had built in the 16th century. Beginning in 1794, Dierfeld lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Dierfeld has only eight inhabitants and is thereby, after Wiedenborstel in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s second smallest municipality by population. As in Wiedenborstel, all inhabitants belong to the same family. The municipality’s head and mayor is Gerhard von Greve-Dierfeld.

The council is made up of 6 council members (this, of course, means that only two people in the municipality are not on council), who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.