Heinzenhausen

Heinzenhausen
Coat of arms
Heinzenhausen
Location of Heinzenhausen within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°37′39″N 7°36′22″E / 49.62750°N 7.60611°E / 49.62750; 7.60611Coordinates: 49°37′39″N 7°36′22″E / 49.62750°N 7.60611°E / 49.62750; 7.60611
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Wilhelm Kolter
Area
• Total	2.21 km2 (0.85 sq mi)
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	264
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67742
Dialling codes	06382
Vehicle registration	KUS

Heinzenhausen on the Lauter 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 of Lauterecken-Wolfstein.

The municipality lies in the North Palatine Uplands in the Lauter valley at an elevation of roughly 175 m above sea level, about halfway between the towns of Lauterecken and Wolfstein. The elevations either side of the dale reach up to 350 m above sea level (Schauerberg 328 m, Jungenwald 349 m). The municipal area measures 221 ha, of which roughly 15 ha is settled and 93 ha is wooded.

Heinzenhausen borders in the east on the municipality of Hohenöllen, in the south on the town of Wolfstein and in the west and north on the municipality of Lohnweiler. Heinzenhausen also meets the municipality of Oberweiler-Tiefenbach at a single point in the southeast.

The village of Heinzenhausen stretches along the dale, for the most part on the Lauter’s right bank and is concentrated towards the north where a small brook empties into the river at the village core. Here, Bundesstraße 270 crosses the Lauter. The Lauter Valley Railway runs along the brook’s left bank with a stop in the village’s south end. The graveyard lies east of the village core.