Sensweiler

Sensweiler
Coat of arms
Sensweiler
Location of Sensweiler within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°46′12″N 07°12′00″E / 49.77000°N 7.20000°E / 49.77000; 7.20000Coordinates: 49°46′12″N 07°12′00″E / 49.77000°N 7.20000°E / 49.77000; 7.20000
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Herrstein
Government
• Mayor	Horst Schmidt
Area
• Total	8.43 km2 (3.25 sq mi)
Elevation	517 m (1,696 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	430
• Density	51/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55758
Dialling codes	06786
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.vg-herrstein.de

Sensweiler 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 Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Sensweiler lies in the Upper Idarbach valley in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 61.1% wooded.

Also belonging to Sensweiler are the outlying homesteads of Sensweiler Mühlen and Waldhof.

Sensweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Bruchweiler, in the east on the municipality of Kempfeld, in the southeast on the municipality of Hettenrodt, in the south on the municipality of Siesbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Allenbach, in the west on the municipality of Wirschweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Langweiler.

Old Celtic stone walls are to be found within municipal limits, and there is a reconstruction of a village such as the ones built by the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived. Indeed, there have been archaeological finds right near the village centre going all the way back to 400 BC.