Hausen, Birkenfeld
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Location of Hausen within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°52′21″N 7°22′39″E / 49.87250°N 7.37750°ECoordinates: 49°52′21″N 7°22′39″E / 49.87250°N 7.37750°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rhaunen | |
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| • Mayor | Günter Weckmüller | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.99 km2 (1.93 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 186 | |
| • Density | 37/km2 (97/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55608 | |
| Dialling codes | 06544 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
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Hausen 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 Rhaunen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The municipality lies in the Hahnenbach valley in the central Hunsrück. Its elevation is 300 m above sea level.
Hausen borders the municipality of Oberkirn to the north, the municipality of Woppenroth (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis) to the east, the municipality of Bundenbach to the south, and the municipality of Rhaunen to the west.
In 1051, Hausen had its first documentary mention, although the village may be even older, for even then, it had a church. With this church, this village set on top of a cliff terrace overlooking a great bend in the Kyrbach was already earning considerable importance in the Middle Ages as the hub of a great parish, to which, among others, Laufersweiler, Woppenroth, Lindenschied, Oberkirn and Schwerbach belonged.
While Laufersweiler split away from the parish quite early on, Woppenroth entered into parochial ties with Dickenschied beginning in 1976, after the 1969 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate. Within the same framework, Lindenschied had its own parochial ties transferred from Hausen to Dickenschied. Both municipalities thus also switched from the Trier church district to the Simmern-Trarbach church district. The Hausen Evangelical parish now encompasses the villages of Hausen, Oberkirn (which has its own church) and Schwerbach.
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