Ruschberg

Coat of arms

Ruschberg

Location of Ruschberg within Birkenfeld district

Coordinates: 49°37′18″N 7°17′24″E / 49.62167°N 7.29000°ECoordinates: 49°37′18″N 7°17′24″E / 49.62167°N 7.29000°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Alfred Heu (SPD)

Area

• Total

7.45 km² (2.88 sq mi)

Elevation

410 m (1,350 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

769

• Density

100/km² (270/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55776

06783

BIR

Ruschberg 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 Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Ruschberg lies on the Baumholder Bach southwest of the 563 m-high Feldberg. It also lies in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France.

Ruschberg borders in the north on the Baumholder Troop Drilling Ground, in the east on the town of Baumholder, in the southeast on the municipality of Fohren-Linden, in the southwest on the municipality of Berglangenbach, in the west on the municipality of Heimbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Reichenbach.

Also belonging to Ruschberg are the outlying homesteads of Clarashall (baryte mine), Haus Mohrenmühle, Im Inkelrech, Lauersmühle and Seibertsmühle.

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

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Ruschberg’s mayor is Alfred Heu.

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess, argent issuant from the line of partition a demilion azure armed and langued gules, and azure a hammer and pick per saltire of the first surmounted by an ear of wheat between two ears of rye all couped, palewise and Or.

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