Frauenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Frauenberg
Coat of arms
Frauenberg
Location of Frauenberg within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°40′N 7°17′E / 49.667°N 7.283°E / 49.667; 7.283Coordinates: 49°40′N 7°17′E / 49.667°N 7.283°E / 49.667; 7.283
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Baumholder
Government
• Mayor	Helmut Herrmann
Area
• Total	3.86 km2 (1.49 sq mi)
Elevation	310 m (1,020 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	392
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55776
Dialling codes	06787
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.frauenberg-nahe.de

Frauenberg 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 on the upper Nahe between the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France, and the Hunsrück.

Frauenberg borders in the south on Reichenbach, in the west on Sonnenberg-Winnenberg, in the north on Idar-Oberstein and in the east on the Baumholder military reserve.

In early historical times, a road from Ausweiler – a now vanished village that was evacuated to make way for the military reserve in 1937 – passed by the Frauenburg (castle) and through the Nahe, running by way of Oberbrombach, Siesbach and Allenbach to the Moselle. Archaeological finds have established that there was a human presence in the Frauenberg area as early as 500 BC or thereabouts. On the Nahekopf (a hill overlooking Frauenberg) once stood a Celtic ringwall, and it is said that the castle itself was built on the ruins of a Roman fort.