Sienhachenbach

Coat of arms

Sienhachenbach

Location of Sienhachenbach within Birkenfeld district

Coordinates: 49°42′04″N 07°29′00″E / 49.70111°N 7.48333°ECoordinates: 49°42′04″N 07°29′00″E / 49.70111°N 7.48333°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Arnold Steitz

Area

• Total

7.60 km² (2.93 sq mi)

Elevation

330 m (1,080 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

198

• Density

26/km² (67/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55758

06788

BIR

Website

www.vg-herrstein.de

Sienhachenbach 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.

The residential community of Sienhachenbach lies between Idar-Oberstein and Lauterecken northeast of the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

Sienhachenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Schmidthachenbach, in the east on the municipality of Sien, in the south on the Baumholder troop drilling ground and in the west on the municipality of Oberreidenbach. Sienhachenbach also meets the municipality of Otzweiler at a single point in the northeast.

Also belonging to Sienhachenbach is the outlying homestead of Forsthaus Antestal.

In 1508, Sienhachenbach had its first documentary mention.

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Sienhachenbach’s mayor is Arnold Steitz, and his deputies are Dietmar Fritz and Sibylla Müller.

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend vert in sinister a bend sinister wavy and in base a village fountain, both argent, and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

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