Fohren-Linden
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Location of Fohren-Linden within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°35′N 7°17′E / 49.583°N 7.283°ECoordinates: 49°35′N 7°17′E / 49.583°N 7.283°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Baumholder | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Gerd Schug | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 6.60 km2 (2.55 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 335 | |
| • Density | 51/km2 (130/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55777 | |
| Dialling codes | 06783 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.fohren-linden.de | |
Fohren-Linden is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the southern Hunsrück in the Unnertal (Unnerbach valley) in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate near the state boundary with the Saarland.
Also belonging to Fohren-Linden is the outlying homestead of Finkenmühle.
The municipality’s name comes from two trees: the word Fohren is apparently a variant of the German word Föhre (“pine”, but cognate with the English word “fir”), while the second word, Linden, is also used in English, alongside “lime” and “basswood”, for the tree of the genus Tilia that still characterizes the village today. It may be, though, that the first half of this hyphenated name comes from the archaic word Forrn (in modern German, Forelle – “trout”). It is known from historical documents that the local stream, the Unnerbach, once teemed with fish.
What is certain, however, is the village’s first documentary mention, which has been dated to 960.
In the First World War, ten men from Fohren-Linden gave their lives. They were followed by 19 others in the Second World War.
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
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