Oberweiler-Tiefenbach

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach
Coat of arms
Oberweiler-Tiefenbach
Location of Oberweiler-Tiefenbach within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°35′52″N 7°36′32″E / 49.59778°N 7.60889°E / 49.59778; 7.60889Coordinates: 49°35′52″N 7°36′32″E / 49.59778°N 7.60889°E / 49.59778; 7.60889
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Günter Schwambach
Area
• Total	3.21 km2 (1.24 sq mi)
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	281
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67752
Dialling codes	06304
Vehicle registration	KUS

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach 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.

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach lies on the river Lauter’s right bank northeast of the Königsberg in the North Palatine Uplands. Originally two separate villages, the municipality’s two centres lie at an elevation of some 185 m above sea level, Oberweiler lying farther upstream at the mill, and Tiefenbach lying farther downstream at the church standing near the mountain slope. Between the two centres flows the Breitbach, which then empties into the Lauter. The elevations east of the village reach heights of up to roughly 370 m above sea level (Eichelberg 368 m). The municipal area measures  ha, of which roughly 15 ha is settled and 80 ha is wooded.

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Hohenöllen and the Reckweilerhof (which belongs to Wolfstein), in the east on the municipality of Einöllen and in the south and west on the town of Wolfstein. Oberweiler-Tiefenbach also meets the municipality of Heinzenhausen at a single point in the northwest.

Oberweiler-Tiefenbach’s Ortsteile are Oberweiler and Tiefenbach.

The two villages, which over time have grown together into one, stretch as a long linear village (or by some definitions, a “thorpe”) along the Lauter’s right bank. The river here also forms Wolfstein’s town limit. The road along which the village stretches, nowadays known as Landesstraße 49, was originally the main link in the Lauter valley. A small concentration of building stands in Oberweiler’s south end near the mill, where a bridge over to the river’s left bank is also to be found. Another bridge linking to Bundesstraße 270 and the stop on the Lauter Valley Railway (Lautertalbahn) is found in the village’s north. Likewise in the north end stands the old church, an eye-catching sight in the Lauter valley. The church is surrounded by the graveyard. The former school, which for a time was used as a special school, stands in the Breitbach valley. Part of the industrial property owned by the firm K. O. Braun, a textile factory, lies within Oberweiler-Tiefenbach’s limits.