Rheinböllen
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Location of Rheinböllen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°00′N 07°40′E / 50.000°N 7.667°ECoordinates: 50°00′N 07°40′E / 50.000°N 7.667°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rheinböllen | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Siegfried Herrmann (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 16.33 km2 (6.31 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 409 m (1,342 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 4,081 | |
| • Density | 250/km2 (650/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55494 | |
| Dialling codes | 06764 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
Rheinböllen is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and also belongs to it.
Rheinböllen lies some 10 km as the crow flies southwest of the Middle Rhine at Bacharach in the southeast Hunsrück. The town is found in the transitional zone between (to the east) the Binger Wald (Bingen Forest) and (to the south) the Soonwald, a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück that since 2005 has belonged to the Naturpark Soonwald-Nahe.
Rheinböllen has two outlying Stadtteile: Kleinweidelbach and Rheinböllerhütte.
Yearly precipitation in Rheinböllen amounts to 695 mm. This falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 39% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations are lower figures recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.6 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies only slightly. Only at 2% of the weather stations are lower seasonal swings recorded.
The prefix Rhein— suggests some kind of historical dependence on Bacharach, to whose Vogtei Rheinböllen may well once have belonged, before it passed to the Counts Palatine. The past teacher and local historian Junges traced Bollen to an old word meaning “hill” or “height”, leading to the interpretation of the name as meaning “Rhine Heights” (an apt description of the location, up on the Hunsrück). Through the ages, the name for Rheinböllen has taken many spellings: Rinbul, Rinbulle, Rynbuhel, Reynbullen, Rymbul, Rymbulen, Rynbule, Rinbelle, Bollen, Bullen, Rinbulde, Rheinbullen.
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