Külz (Hunsrück)
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Location of Külz within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°0′27″N 7°29′44″E / 50.00750°N 7.49556°ECoordinates: 50°0′27″N 7°29′44″E / 50.00750°N 7.49556°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Simmern | |
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| • Mayor | Aloys Schneider | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 6.92 km2 (2.67 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 355 m (1,165 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 484 | |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55471 | |
| Dialling codes | 06761 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www |
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Külz 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 Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Külz is a rural residential community in the Hunsrück whose buildings are somewhat spread out. The municipality lies in the Külzbach valley and has a Landesstraße (State Road) passing through it. The municipal area measures 6.92 km², of which 1.71 km² is covered by municipal woodlands. Külz lies 350 m above sea level, roughly 4 km northwest of Simmern.
Külz has two outlying Ortsteile named Gass and Taubenmühle.
The Ortsgemeinde of Külz came into being through the merger of the Ortsteile of Eichkülz on the one hand and Külz with the Ortsteil of Gaß, the boundary between which was the Külzbach, on the other. Eichkülz lay on the brook’s right bank in the former territory governed by the provost at Ravengiersburg Monastery. The two other centres over on the brook’s left bank, however, lay in the former Imperial territory that King Albrecht pledged to Count Simon II of Sponheim in 1302. These Imperial rights were acquired shortly thereafter by the Elector of the Palatinate.
Researching Külz’s history is not easy, as besides the three forms of the name already mentioned, the forms Engeltroutkülz and Osterkülz also crop up in documents. Furthermore, Alterkülz in the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun is sometimes named as In der Külze, Auf der Külze or Külz. To make matters worse, the “Külz” mentioned in 1204, 1293 and 1294 in connection with the Cistercian convent of Chumbd (Kumbd) seems to have been, not today’s Külz, but rather a now vanished village that lay on the upper reaches of the Osterkülz. Moreover, Neuerkirch once also bore the name Külz. Only when the church was built could a more exact name be applied to the village: Külz bei der Kirche (“Külz at the Church”).
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