Dittweiler

Dittweiler
Coat of arms
Dittweiler
Location of Dittweiler within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°25′46″N 7°20′12″E / 49.42944°N 7.33667°E / 49.42944; 7.33667Coordinates: 49°25′46″N 7°20′12″E / 49.42944°N 7.33667°E / 49.42944; 7.33667
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Oberes Glantal
Government
• Mayor	Winfried Karl Cloß
Area
• Total	5.63 km2 (2.17 sq mi)
Elevation	278 m (912 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	801
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	66903
Dialling codes	06386
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	www.dittweiler.de

Dittweiler 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 of Oberes Glantal, whose seat is in Schönenberg-Kübelberg.

The municipality lies in the Kohlbach valley the Western Palatinate at an elevation of roughly 270 m above sea level, to a great extent on roads that run parallel to the Kohlbach and the Romersbach, which empties into it here. As in the neighbouring village of Altenkirchen, much of the former cropland within Dittweiler’s municipal limits has been given over to meadow orchards, particularly ones planted with sweet cherry (there are some 7,000 fruit trees). The nearby mountains to the village’s west, towards Breitenbach, reach more than 400 m above sea level (Hartenberg 435 m), and to the east, more than 350 m (Wartenstein 375 m). Wooded land stretches out particularly in the municipal area’s west. The municipal area itself measures 563 ha, of which 168 ha is wooded.

Dittweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Altenkirchen, in the northeast on the municipality of Ohmbach, in the east on the municipality of Brücken, in the south on the municipality of Schönenberg-Kübelberg, in the southwest on the municipality of Dunzweiler and in the west on the municipality of Breitenbach.