Oberreidenbach

Oberreidenbach
Coat of arms
Oberreidenbach
Location of Oberreidenbach within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°42′21″N 07°27′56″E / 49.70583°N 7.46556°E / 49.70583; 7.46556Coordinates: 49°42′21″N 07°27′56″E / 49.70583°N 7.46556°E / 49.70583; 7.46556
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Herrstein
Government
• Mayor	Peter Gleßner
Area
• Total	10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Elevation	320 m (1,050 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	597
• Density	55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55758
Dialling codes	06788
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.vg-herrstein.de

Oberreidenbach 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 on Bundesstraße 270, in a side valley of the Upper Nahe, between the Palatinate and the Hunsrück. Oberreidenbach lies right at the edge of one of Germany’s biggest military drilling grounds, the Truppenübungsplatz Baumholder, which for decades has been used mainly by the Bundeswehr and the United States Army.

The municipality has at its disposal a municipal area of 1 093 ha, of which 277 ha is wooded, and another 412 ha of which is occupied by the military drilling ground.

Oberreidenbach’s neighbours are Mittelreidenbach, Schmidthachenbach and Sienhachenbach. The nearest major towns are Idar-Oberstein and Kaiserslautern.

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Oberreidenbach’s mayor is Peter Gleßner, and his deputies are Reiner Weiß and Stefan Becker.