Ginsweiler

Ginsweiler
Coat of arms
Ginsweiler
Location of Ginsweiler within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°39′10″N 7°38′52″E / 49.65278°N 7.64778°E / 49.65278; 7.64778Coordinates: 49°39′10″N 7°38′52″E / 49.65278°N 7.64778°E / 49.65278; 7.64778
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Egbert Jung
Area
• Total	3.99 km2 (1.54 sq mi)
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	319
• Density	80/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67742
Dialling codes	06364
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	www.ginsweiler.de

Ginsweiler 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 Lauterecken-Wolfstein.

The municipality lies in the North Palatine Uplands in the Odenbach valley, which runs between the Lauter and Alsenz valleys. The greater part of the village lies on the Odenbach’s right bank at an elevation of some 180 m above sea level. Here, the Becherbach, which rises east of the village near the neighbouring village of Becherbach, meets the Odenbach. The elevations either side of the valley within Ginsweiler’s limits reach up to 340 m above sea level on the right bank and 350 m above sea level on the left. Many people call the region the Alte Welt (“Old World”). The municipal area measures 399 ha, of which 38 ha is settled and 57 ha is wooded.

Ginsweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Adenbach, in the east on the municipality of Becherbach, in the south on the municipality of Reipoltskirchen, in the southwest on the municipality of Hohenöllen and in the west on the municipality of Cronenberg.

Also belonging to Ginsweiler are the outlying homesteads of Naumburgerhof and Ölmühle.

The old village core lies in the valley of the Becherbach just upstream from where it empties into the Odenbach. The original village was expanded along the through road in the Odenbach valley. There are still quite a few old farmhouses here. The mill in the village’s north end, the oilmill in the southwest and the Naumburgerhof in the west are also part of the older building areas. A new building area, Nachtweide, arose in 1990 south of the Becherbach. The former schoolhouse, in which an ecumenical church service room has now been set up, stands on Hauptstraße (“Main Street”). A sporting ground with a football pitch lies in the village’s northern area between the through road and the Odenbach. The graveyard is found in the east on the road to Becherbach.