Horath

Horath
Horath
Location of Horath within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates: 49°48′41.70″N 06°59′9.48″E / 49.8115833°N 6.9859667°E / 49.8115833; 6.9859667Coordinates: 49°48′41.70″N 06°59′9.48″E / 49.8115833°N 6.9859667°E / 49.8115833; 6.9859667
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc.	Thalfang am Erbeskopf
Government
• Mayor	Egon Adams
Area
• Total	11.89 km2 (4.59 sq mi)
Elevation	440 m (1,440 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	448
• Density	38/km2 (98/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54497
Dialling codes	06504
Vehicle registration	WIL

Horath 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, in a hollow in the Dhron valley. Horath belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Thalfang am Erbeskopf, whose seat is in the municipality of Thalfang.

Horath borders in the east on the municipality of Morbach (outlying centre of Haag), in the south on the municipalities of Merschbach and Gräfendhron, in the west on the municipalities of Berglicht and Neumagen-Dhron (outlying centre of Papiermühle) and in the north on the municipality of Piesport (outlying centre of Niederemmel).

Local finds from Hallstatt and La Tène times are displayed at the Trier Rhenish State Museum. The village had its first documentary mention in a pledge document from Count Heinrich at Salm issued on 1 December 1281. As a result of the turmoil of the French Revolution, Horath 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.