Oberhosenbach
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Location of Oberhosenbach within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°48′52″N 07°19′53″E / 49.81444°N 7.33139°ECoordinates: 49°48′52″N 07°19′53″E / 49.81444°N 7.33139°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein | |
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| • Mayor | Kirsten Beetz | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.14 km2 (1.60 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 430 m (1,410 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 138 | |
| • Density | 33/km2 (86/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55758 | |
| Dialling codes | 06785 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.vg-herrstein.de | |
Oberhosenbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The municipality lies roughly 18 km north of Idar-Oberstein near the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”) and the Hunsrück Schiefer- und Burgenstraße (“Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road”). Half the municipal area is wooded.
In 1318, Oberhosenbach had its first documentary mention as Volmarshusenbach.
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.
Oberhosenbach’s mayor is Kirsten Beetz, and her deputies are Reinhold Noll and Gabriele Wolter.
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend vert a cross Latin Or and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Running south of the municipality is Bundesstraße 41. Serving nearby Fischbach is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).
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