Herren-Sulzbach

Herren-Sulzbach
Coat of arms
Herren-Sulzbach
Location of Herren-Sulzbach within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°38′59″N 7°31′47″E / 49.64972°N 7.52972°E / 49.64972; 7.52972Coordinates: 49°38′59″N 7°31′47″E / 49.64972°N 7.52972°E / 49.64972; 7.52972
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Günter Franzmann
Area
• Total	2.92 km2 (1.13 sq mi)
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	154
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67742
Dialling codes	06788
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	vg-lw.de

Herren-Sulzbach (“Lords’ Sulzbach”) 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 Western Palatinate west of Lauterecken at an elevation of about 300 m above sea level on a brook called the Sulzbach, which rises within municipal limits and then flows less than a kilometre down to the Grumbach, which is also known hereabouts as the Rüllbach. The mountains around the village reach elevations of 340 to 360 m above sea level. The municipal area measures 296 ha, of which roughly 8 ha is settled and 69 ha is wooded.

Herren-Sulzbach borders in the north on the municipality of Merzweiler, in the east on the municipality of Grumbach, in the south on the municipality of Buborn, in the southwest on the municipalities of Deimberg and Kirrweiler and in the west on the municipality of Homberg.

Also belonging to Herren-Sulzbach is the outlying centre known as the Feriendorf Rheinpfalz, a holiday village.

Herren-Sulzbach is a clump village set against a mountain slope, and it has old buildings. The church with its Romanesque building elements stands in the hollow at the village’s upper end. The graveyard lies on the right side of the road that links the village with the Grumbach valley and Bundesstraße 270. There is altogether very little in the way of new building. The former schoolhouse stands at Hauptstraße 22, near the church. It was built in 1849 and expanded in 1890. In 1966, the Evangelical church community built the municipal hall with financial support from the municipality. The holiday village Rheinpfalz came into being in 1970 with 46 holiday dwellings and lies outside the village to the side of the linking road to Bundesstraße 270.