Reipoltskirchen

Reipoltskirchen
Coat of arms
Reipoltskirchen Location of Reipoltskirchen within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°38′4.6″N 7°39′42.25″E / 49.634611°N 7.6617361°E / 49.634611; 7.6617361Coordinates: 49°38′4.6″N 7°39′42.25″E / 49.634611°N 7.6617361°E / 49.634611; 7.6617361
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor	Elisabeth Schultz
Area
• Total	7.49 km2 (2.89 sq mi)
Elevation	208 m (682 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	358
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67753
Dialling codes	06364
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	www.reipoltskirchen.de

Lordship of Reipoltskirchen
Herrschaft Reipoltskirchen
State of the Holy Roman Empire
before 1500–1792
Capital		Reipoltskirchen
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Church first built     in Richbaldes	ca 750
•	First mention of     Reipoltskirchen	1198 Enter start year
•	Gained Reichsfreiheit	before 1500
•	Annexed by France (to Saar)	1792
•	Electoral Palatinate     acquired by Bavaria	1816
Preceded by Succeeded by Electorate of the Palatinate Sarre (département)

Reipoltskirchen 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.

Reipoltskirchen lies in the Odenbach valley in the north of the North Palatine Uplands at an elevation of some 200 m on a slight broadening of the valley floor. The mountains on either side of the valley climb rather steeply upwards, reaching more than 300 m above sea level on the right (east) bank and more than 400 m above sea level on the left (west) bank (Steinkopf 403.3 m, Platte 361 m, Galgenkopf 303 m). While the Ingweilerhof lies in the dale, along with the main centre, Ausbacherhof and Karlshof are to be found on the heights that stretch out between the Odenbach valley and Lauter valley to the west. The municipal area measures 652 ha, of which roughly 7 ha is settled and 250 ha is wooded.

Reipoltskirchen borders in the north on the municipality of Becherbach, in the northeast on the municipality of Nußbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Hefersweiler, in the south on the municipality of Relsberg, in the southwest on the municipality of Einöllen, in the west on the municipality of Hohenöllen and in the northwest on the municipality of Cronenberg.

Reipoltskirchen’s Ortsteile are the main centre, likewise called Reipoltskirchen, and the outlying centres of Ausbacherhof, Ingweilerhof and Karlshof.

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