Elzweiler

Elzweiler
Coat of arms
Elzweiler
Location of Elzweiler within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°34′47″N 7°30′53″E / 49.57972°N 7.51472°E / 49.57972; 7.51472Coordinates: 49°34′47″N 7°30′53″E / 49.57972°N 7.51472°E / 49.57972; 7.51472
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Altenglan
Government
• Mayor	Hartmut Jung
Area
• Total	2.09 km2 (0.81 sq mi)
Elevation	250 m (820 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	103
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	66887
Dialling codes	06387
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	www.elzweiler.de

Elzweiler 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 Altenglan, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

The municipality lies at the entrance to the Sachsbach valley in the Western Palatinate. The village lies at the foot of the 536 m-high Herrmannsberg at an elevation of some 270 m above sea level on the local thoroughfare. Lying right on this only a few hundred metres away in a side valley is the neighbouring village of Welchweiler. The Sachsbach rises some 2 km up from the village of Elzweiler near the Schneeweiderhof and empties into the river Glan near Glanbrücken. In its lower reaches, the stream bears the name Horschbach. The municipal area measures 209 ha, of which 95 ha is wooded.

Elzweiler borders in the north and east on the municipality of Horschbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Eßweiler, in the south on the municipality of Bosenbach and in the west on the municipality of Welchweiler. Elzweiler also meets the municipality of Altenglan at a single point in the southwest.

The village’s houses stand on a spur road that branches off the Glanbrücken-Altenglan through road in the Sachsbach valley and ends behind the village’s last houses and at several short sidestreets. As a general rule, houses are simple and often modernized, and belong to commuters. About half the houses were built before 1900. Owing to only slight population growth, the original built-up area has not significantly spread outwards.