Kirrweiler, Kusel
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Location of Kirrweiler within Kusel district
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| Coordinates: 49°38′5″N 7°30′6″E / 49.63472°N 7.50167°ECoordinates: 49°38′5″N 7°30′6″E / 49.63472°N 7.50167°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Kusel | |
| Municipal assoc. | Lauterecken-Wolfstein | |
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| • Mayor | Albert Reiß | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 270 m (890 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 183 | |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67744 | |
| Dialling codes | 06387 | |
| Vehicle registration | KUS | |
| Website | www.kirrweiler.com | |
Kirrweiler 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 between the Palatinate Forest and the Hunsrück. Kirrweiler lies on a sloped plateau that rises gently from south to north (from 320 to 350 m above sea level). South of the village rises the Anderbach, which runs for some 3 km down to its mouth into the Glan near Glanbrücken. The outlying centre of Zollstock lies at an elevation of 360 m above sea level on the heights of a mountain saddle that stands between the Anderbach and Rötelbach valleys. The municipal area is 51% wooded.
In 1938, when the Baumholder troop drilling ground was being built, the municipality was stripped of 155.5 ha of woodland by the Nazis. In the course of disarmament after the Cold War, Kirrweiler received 170.21 ha of the drilling ground in 1993. Although this is now officially part of the municipal area, the landowner is still the German federal government.
Kirrweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Homberg (and more specifically on the Schönbornerhof, that municipality’s historic farm estate), in the northeast on the municipality of Herren-Sulzbach, in the east on the municipality of Deimberg, in the south on the municipality of Sankt Julian and in the west on the Baumholder troop drilling ground.
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