Hirschfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Location of Hirschfeld within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 49°53′57″N 7°14′40″E / 49.89917°N 7.24444°ECoordinates: 49°53′57″N 7°14′40″E / 49.89917°N 7.24444°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kirchberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Alfred Elz | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.09 km2 (1.97 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 462 m (1,516 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 286 | |
| • Density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55483 | |
| Dialling codes | 06543 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www |
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Hirschfeld (Hunsrück) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück. South of the village lies the Idarwald (forest), and to the north runs Bundesstraße 327, also known as the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). A few kilometres to the northeast is Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Hirschfeld also lies on the Hunsrückquerbahn, now used along this section of the line as a tourist railway.
Bearing witness to Hirschfeld’s early habitation are several barrows from prehistory and early history on the Roman road between the Belginum Archaeology Park and Boppard (Hunsrückhöhenstraße). In 1353, Hirschfeld had its first documentary mention when its church was mentioned in a document. The church itself has an interesting history, having begun life before the Reformation as a Catholic church, after which it became a simultaneous church to accommodate both Catholic and Protestant worship in Hirschfeld. It underwent expansion in 1748 and 1749. The simultaneum was dissolved in 1921, whereafter the Hirschfeld Catholic congregation built its own church in 1926, and the older building is now purely an Evangelical church. Two bells there date from 1481 and 1545.
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