Nieder Kostenz
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Location of Nieder Kostenz within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 49°56′43″N 7°22′1″E / 49.94528°N 7.36694°ECoordinates: 49°56′43″N 7°22′1″E / 49.94528°N 7.36694°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kirchberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Harald Gewehr | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.12 km2 (1.59 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 353 m (1,158 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 180 | |
| • Density | 44/km2 (110/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55481 | |
| Dialling codes | 06763 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
Nieder Kostenz 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 Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the Kyrbach valley, 2 km west of Kirchberg. The rural residential community has an area of 4.12 km², of which 1.19 km² is wooded.
The placename Nieder Kostenz first cropped up in 1310 in the Sponheimisches Gefälleregister, a taxation register kept by the County of Sponheim. Over the years, various spellings of the name appear on the historical record:
When Nieder Kostenz actually arose and when the first settlers came are things that nobody can answer with any certainty. A great many archaeological finds in the area, however, grave goods such as bronze rings and belt plaques, iron lance heads, iron combat knives and coins from Roman Emperor Vespasian’s time, bear witness to Celtic-Roman settlement in the area. There have been other Roman finds, too: foundation walls from a Roman settlement, a water duct, tiles and potsherds.
Julius Caesar’s writings identify the Hunsrück and neighbouring regions as the realm of the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived. Nieder Kostenz’s current site was in Caesar’s time part of the Imperial province of Germania Superior.
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