Hottenbach

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Hottenbach

Location of Hottenbach within Birkenfeld district

Coordinates: 49°49′29.58″N 7°17′53.17″E / 49.8248833°N 7.2981028°ECoordinates: 49°49′29.58″N 7°17′53.17″E / 49.8248833°N 7.2981028°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Horst Kreischer

Area

• Total

11.21 km² (4.33 sq mi)

Elevation

432 m (1,417 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

589

• Density

53/km² (140/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55758

06785

BIR

Website

www.gemeinde-hottenbach.de

Hottenbach 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 Rhaunen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

The municipality lies on the Ebesbach in the Hunsrück southeast of the Idar Forest.

Hottenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Stipshausen, in the northeast on the municipalities of Rhaunen and Sulzbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Oberhosenbach, in the south on the municipalities of Weiden and Asbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Hellertshausen and in the west on the municipality of Morbach (Bernkastel-Wittlich district).

Also belonging to Hottenbach is the outlying homestead of Hottenbacher Mühlen.

The first traces of human habitation go back to prehistoric times. Unearthed in the Vierherrenwald (“Four-Lord Forest”) was a stone axe from the New Stone Age (about 3500–1800 BC). Most archaeological finds, though, come from Roman times. As the Hottenbach church was being torn down in 1903, Roman brickwork was discovered along with sandstone blocks and a hypocaust, which all point to a Roman villa rustica. On Langmes, not far from the old long-distance path from the Nahe to the Moselle, a burying ground with 60 to 70 cremation pits was found. At the municipal limit with Oberhosenbach once stood a small temple. Roman life is believed to have ended when the Germanic invaders came in AD 275 and 276.

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