Nußbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Location of Nußbach within Kusel district
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| Coordinates: 49°37′45″N 7°41′45″E / 49.62906°N 7.6957°ECoordinates: 49°37′45″N 7°41′45″E / 49.62906°N 7.6957°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Kusel | |
| Municipal assoc. | Lauterecken-Wolfstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Werner Pries (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8.11 km2 (3.13 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 244 m (801 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 571 | |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67759 | |
| Dialling codes | 06364 | |
| Vehicle registration | KUS | |
| Website | www.nussbach-pfalz.de | |
Nußbach (or Nussbach) 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.
Nußbach lies in the valley of the like-named brook, the Nußbach (“Nutbrook”), which empties into the Odenbach some two kilometres downstream from the village, in the North Palatine Uplands. It sits at an elevation of some 200 m above sea level, although outlying elevations within municipal limits reach heights of almost 450 m above sea level (Galgenkopf 305 m, Flettersberg 366 m, Erlenberg 399 m, Anzenthaler Hüberl 420 m, Sohlberg 433 m, Roßberg 448 m). The road that runs by, Landesstraße 386, links the Odenbach valley with the Alsenz valley. The municipal area measures 811 ha, of which roughly 36 ha is settled and 105 ha is wooded.
Nußbach borders in the north on the municipality of Waldgrehweiler, in the northeast on the municipality of Bisterschied, in the east on the municipality of Teschenmoschel, in the southeast on the municipality of Rathskirchen, in the south on the municipality of Hefersweiler, in the southwest on the municipality of Reipoltskirchen and in the northwest on the municipality of Becherbach.
Nußbach is a clump village lying on a broadening of the dale in the area of the so-called Dorfbach (“Village Brook”), which flows by from the Roßberg (“Steed Mountain”) and here empties into the Nußbach. The built-up area stretches almost exclusively along the Nußbach’s right bank, and reaches its greatest concentration where Bachstraße, a road running alongside the Dorfbach, meets Hauptstraße (“Main Street”), which runs alongside the Nußbach. Within the village, a few architecturally noteworthy buildings are to be found. The interesting Evangelical village church was built in the Art Nouveau style in 1911-1912 to plans by Nuremberg architect Dünnbier. Across the street stands a house built in the same style. Particularly worthy of mention is the Laubenhaus or Haus Wildanger at Bachstraße 2, built as a timber-frame house. Since March 2002, it has served as the local history museum, called the Alte-Welt-Museum. Also held to be of special interest among buildings are farmhouses built as three-side estates (open at one side, bordered by buildings on the other three) or corner estates and a belltower at the former graveyard. Both the sporting ground and the new graveyard lie in the village’s northwest. Nußbach is today said to be a “residential community with rural character and emergent tourism”.
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