Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate
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 Kappeln
Location of Kappeln within Kusel district
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| Coordinates: 49°40′33″N 7°34′16″E / 49.67583°N 7.57111°ECoordinates: 49°40′33″N 7°34′16″E / 49.67583°N 7.57111°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Kusel | |
| Municipal assoc. | Lauterecken-Wolfstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Otfried Buß | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 7.67 km2 (2.96 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 230 m (750 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 203 | |
| • Density | 26/km2 (69/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67744 | |
| Dialling codes | 06382 | |
| Vehicle registration | KUS | |
| Website | www.kappeln-pfalz.de | |
Kappeln 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 Lauterecken-Wolfstein.
The municipality lies in the Western Palatinate at the mouth of the Perlebach, where it empties into the Jeckenbach (also called the Merzweiler Bach). Kappeln lies in the lower Perlebach valley at an elevation of some 230 m above sea level. Elevations around the village reach heights of roughly 350 m above sea level. The municipal area measures 767 ha, of which roughly 6 ha is settled and 57 ha is wooded.
Kappeln borders in the north on the municipality of Löllbach, in the east on the municipality of Medard, in the southeast on an exclave belonging to the municipality of Grumbach and the town of Lauterecken, in the south on the municipality of Grumbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Merzweiler, in the west on the municipality of Hoppstädten and in the northwest on the municipality of Schweinschied.
Also belonging to Kappeln is the outlying homestead of Udenhof, an Aussiedlerhof (post-war agricultural community), but at one time, a mill.
Kappeln is an old clump village that has been thrust together, with an older built-up area that spreads over the bottoms of both river valleys, and at the sides up the mountain slopes. The church stands in the middle of the village and the graveyard lies in the west on a road running parallel to the village street on the Perlebach’s right bank. Roughly 500 m downstream from the village’s lower end and at the side of the road leading to Löllbach stands the Kappelermühle (mill). In the northeast on a hill lies the sporting ground, and in the northwest, about 100 m outside the village, lies a shooting range. On the whole, only very little newer building is to be noted. The former school today serves as the village community centre.
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