Rutsweiler am Glan

Rutsweiler am Glan
Coat of arms
Rutsweiler am Glan
Location of Rutsweiler am Glan within Kusel district
Coordinates: 49°31′39.677″N 7°27′18.256″E / 49.52768806°N 7.45507111°E / 49.52768806; 7.45507111Coordinates: 49°31′39.677″N 7°27′18.256″E / 49.52768806°N 7.45507111°E / 49.52768806; 7.45507111
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Altenglan
Government
• Mayor	Anita Meder
Area
• Total	1.59 km2 (0.61 sq mi)
Elevation	210 m (690 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	307
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	66887
Dialling codes	06381
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	rutsweiler-glan.de

Rutsweiler am Glan 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 of Altenglan, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Rutsweiler am Glan is one of two places in the Kusel district named Rutsweiler. The other is Rutsweiler an der Lauter, lying some 13 km to the eastnortheast.

Rutsweiler am Glan lies in the Kusel Musikantenland (“Minstrels’ Land”) in the Western Palatinate at the foot of the Potzberg on the river Glan’s right bank in a north-south direction along Bundesstraße 423 (Altenglan–Glan-Münchweiler–Sarreguemines). The valley floor lies at an elevation of 207.0 to 203.3 m above sea level. The ground rises steeply up towards the Potzberg’s summit to the east. The hilliness and the soil’s poor quality hinder any intensive use. Living in the municipality are 371 inhabitants in an area of 159 ha, of which 144 ha is woodland, cropland and meadowland.

Rutsweiler am Glan borders in the north on the municipality of Altenglan, in the east on the municipality of Föckelberg, in the southeast on the municipality of Neunkirchen am Potzberg and in the south and west on the municipality of Theisbergstegen.