Uhler

Uhler
Coat of arms
Uhler
Location of Uhler within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°5′17.12″N 7°25′53.83″E / 50.0880889°N 7.4316194°E / 50.0880889; 7.4316194Coordinates: 50°5′17.12″N 7°25′53.83″E / 50.0880889°N 7.4316194°E / 50.0880889; 7.4316194
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.	Kastellaun
Government
• Mayor	Hans-Herbert Laux
Area
• Total	5.58 km2 (2.15 sq mi)
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	346
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56290
Dialling codes	06762
Vehicle registration	SIM
Website	www.ort-uhler.de

Uhler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies on a ridge in the central Hunsrück, roughly 12 km southeast of the Moselle at Treis-Karden, 3 km north of Kastellaun and 2 km north of the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). Also belonging to Uhler are the outlying homesteads of Gräfenmühle, Junkersmühle, Neumühle and Sulzmühle.

In 1200, Uhler had its first documentary mention in a document from St. Maximin’s Abbey in Trier as owilre. Uhler belonged to the “Three-Lord Court” in Beltheim. Beginning in 1794, Uhler lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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.