Körborn

Körborn
Coat of arms
Körborn
Location of Körborn within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°33′51″N 7°22′12″E / 49.56417°N 7.37000°E / 49.56417; 7.37000Coordinates: 49°33′51″N 7°22′12″E / 49.56417°N 7.37000°E / 49.56417; 7.37000
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Kusel
Government
• Mayor	Reiner Schultheiß
Area
• Total	5.86 km2 (2.26 sq mi)
Elevation	339 m (1,112 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	350
• Density	60/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	66871
Dialling codes	06381
Vehicle registration	KUS

Körborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kusel, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Körborn lies in the headwaters of the Mühlbach, which rises on the plateau north of the town of Kusel, flows out of a broad hollow in a narrow, steep valley southeastwards to the Kuselbach. Towards the north, the municipal area stretches rather a long way to the houses of the little village of the Breitsesterhof (an outlying centre of Baumholder), while towards the south, the municipality’s administrative area reaches to a point near Diedelkopf (an outlying centre of Kusel). In the east-west direction, it broadens out only slightly, but jutting out from the built-up area are two bulges. The western one reaches right out to Castle Lichtenberg (although this lies just outside Körborn’s limits in Thallichtenberg), while the eastern one runs along the so-called Roman road towards the Mayweilerhof (an outlying centre of Oberalben). The village itself sits at its lower elevations at 360 m above sea level, and at its higher ones at 390 m above sea level. In the municipal area’s wooded northern reaches, the land at first falls off into a dale, the Baumholder Loch (Loch means “hole” in German), only to rise up again on the far side to heights reaching more than 400 m above sea level. The highest point that has been measured within the municipality’s limits is one in the woods out near the Breitsesterhof reaching 456 m above sea level. The eastern and western bulges, too, both break the 400-metre mark in elevation. The lowest point in the municipality is one near Diedelkopf in the Mühlbach valley where the land drops down to about 270 m above sea level. The municipal area measures 586 ha, of which 138 ha is wooded.