Hilscheid

Coat of arms

Hilscheid

Location of Hilscheid within Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Coordinates: 49°43′54.15″N 07°00′20.7″E / 49.7317083°N 7.005750°ECoordinates: 49°43′54.15″N 07°00′20.7″E / 49.7317083°N 7.005750°E

Country

Thalfang am Erbeskopf

Government

• Mayor

Detlef Haink

Area

• Total

18.07 km² (6.98 sq mi)

Elevation

460 m (1,510 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

260

• Density

14/km² (37/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

54426

06504

WIL

Website

hilscheid.de

Hilscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück and within its municipal area is the Erbeskopf. Of the municipal area’s 1 807 ha, 1 434 ha is wooded. Hilscheid belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Thalfang am Erbeskopf, whose seat is in the municipality of Thalfang.

Beginning in the 12th century, Hilscheid was part of the Mark Thalfang, a territory roughly corresponding to today’s Verbandsgemeinde. As a result of the turmoil of the French Revolution, Hilscheid lay under French rule beginning about 1800. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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.

The German blazon reads: Schild von eingebogener grüner Spitze, darin eine silberne Schmelzpfanne über silbernen Flammen, gespalten; vorn in silbern eine schwarze Lyra, hinten in Gold ein blaubewehrter roter Löwe.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter argent a lyre sable, sinister Or a lion rampant gules armed azure, and in base vert a melting pan over fire of the first.

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