Hettenrodt
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Location of Hettenrodt within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°44′30″N 07°15′16″E / 49.74167°N 7.25444°ECoordinates: 49°44′30″N 07°15′16″E / 49.74167°N 7.25444°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Jürgen Thom | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.32 km2 (2.05 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 440 m (1,440 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 665 | |
| • Density | 130/km2 (320/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55758 | |
| Dialling codes | 06781 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.hettenrodt.de | |
Hettenrodt 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 on the east side of a ridge between the Idarbach and the Siesbach in the Vorderhunsrück and borders directly on the town of Idar-Oberstein. The municipal area measures 532 ha, of which some 120 ha is state forest. The actual village itself covers 29 ha. The municipal area has a rather odd shape, which has given it its unusually long municipal limit of roughly 20 km. The village centrepoint has an elevation of 410 m above sea level, and the municipality’s highest point, the fort near Kirschweiler, lies at 623 m above sea level.
Hettenrodt lies on the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”) and within both the Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück and the Wildenburg hiking area.
Of protohistoric times in what is now Hettenrodt, very little is known. It is likely, however, that running over the ridge set north-south between the Idarbach and the Siesbach (two small rivers), from the Silberich towards the Steinkaulenberg (two mountains) was a Roman road. Since the Romans used, cared for and even guarded all springs that lay near their roads, it can be assumed that at that time – about the year 1 – there was already a small settlement, or perhaps a fort, on the “Kremel”.
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