Duchroth

Duchroth
Coat of arms
Duchroth
Location of Duchroth within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°47′1″N 7°44′19″E / 49.78361°N 7.73861°E / 49.78361; 7.73861Coordinates: 49°47′1″N 7°44′19″E / 49.78361°N 7.73861°E / 49.78361; 7.73861
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Rüdesheim
Government
• Mayor	Manfred Porr
Area
• Total	9.68 km2 (3.74 sq mi)
Elevation	247 m (810 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	540
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55585
Dialling codes	06755
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.duchroth.de

Duchroth is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Duchroth is a winegrowing centre and lies in the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park.

Duchroth lies 240 m above sea level in the Rheingrafenstein local recreation area, south of the Hunsrück, between the spa town of Bad Kreuznach and the gemstone town of Idar-Oberstein, not far from neighbouring Odernheim am Glan, where the Glan empties into the Nahe.

Clockwise from the north, Duchroth’s neighbours are the municipality of Waldböckelheim, the municipality of Schloßböckelheim, the municipality of Oberhausen an der Nahe, the municipality of Hallgarten, the town of Obermoschel, the municipality of Lettweiler, the municipality of Odernheim am Glan, the municipality of Staudernheim and the municipality of Boos. All lie in the Bad Kreuznach district but Obermoschel, which lies in the neighbouring Donnersbergkreis.