Griebelschied

Griebelschied
Coat of arms
Griebelschied
Location of Griebelschied within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°48′04″N 07°24′01″E / 49.80111°N 7.40028°E / 49.80111; 7.40028Coordinates: 49°48′04″N 07°24′01″E / 49.80111°N 7.40028°E / 49.80111; 7.40028
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Herrstein
Government
• Mayor	Herbert Hohmann
Area
• Total	4.19 km2 (1.62 sq mi)
Elevation	397 m (1,302 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	169
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55608
Dialling codes	06752
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.griebelschied.de

Griebelschied 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 Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

The municipality lies west of the Nahe between Kirn and Herrstein. Forty-three percent of the municipal area is wooded.

In 1279, Griebelschied had its first documentary mention. In 1800, Schinderhannes (Johannes Bückler), an infamous outlaw, celebrated his “Robber’s Ball of Griebelschied”.

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Griebelschied’s mayor is Herbert Hohmann, and his deputies are Thomas Endres (not the fencer) and Erich Stumm.

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure, and vert an oakleaf bendwise slipped and a sprig of acorns bendwise sinister, the two per saltire in base and the whole of the first.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

To the southeast runs Bundesstraße 41. Available in nearby Kirn is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).