Schmittweiler

Schmittweiler
Coat of arms
Schmittweiler
Location of Schmittweiler within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°41′27.78″N 7°42′14.16″E / 49.6910500°N 7.7039333°E / 49.6910500; 7.7039333Coordinates: 49°41′27.78″N 7°42′14.16″E / 49.6910500°N 7.7039333°E / 49.6910500; 7.7039333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Meisenheim
Government
• Mayor	Helmut Sittel
Area
• Total	5.48 km2 (2.12 sq mi)
Elevation	273 m (896 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	192
• Density	35/km2 (91/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67829
Dialling codes	06753
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.schmittweiler.de

Schmittweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Schmittweiler is a linear village (by some definitions, a “thorpe”) that lies in the Eschelbach valley, a narrow side valley whose mouth can be found in Callbach, in the North Palatine Uplands. The countryside around Schmittweiler lies in the south of the Bad Kreuznach district. In the southeast, the municipal area borders on the Donnersbergkreis. The municipal area measures 540 ha.

Clockwise from the north, Schmittweiler’s neighbours are Callbach, Finkenbach-Gersweiler, Waldgrehweiler (these last two lying in the neighbouring Donnersbergkreis), Becherbach and Reiffelbach, which all, but for those otherwise noted, likewise lie in the Bad Kreuznach district.

After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Schmittweiler belonged to the Rheinkreis, an exclave of the Kingdom of Bavaria, in which it remained through Bavarian times, Imperial times, Weimar times and the time of the Third Reich, becoming part of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate only after the Second World War. To distinguish itself from the outlying centre of Schönenberg-Kübelberg also known as Schmittweiler, the village once bore the official tag “Amtsgericht Lauterecken”. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969, Schmittweiler was transferred from the Kusel district to the Bad Kreuznach district. From an ecclesiastical standpoint, Schmittweiler still belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Evangelical) and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer.