Wüschheim

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Wüschheim

Location of Wüschheim within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 50°00′47″N 7°25′24″E / 50.01306°N 7.42333°ECoordinates: 50°00′47″N 7°25′24″E / 50.01306°N 7.42333°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Alfred Schwebach

Area

• Total

3.90 km² (1.51 sq mi)

Elevation

440 m (1,440 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

289

• Density

74/km² (190/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55471

06761

SIM

Website

www.wueschheim.de

Wüschheim 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 Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück some 3 km from the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders), on the road that leads between Kappel and the Blümlingshof (a homestead in Bell-Völkenroth) eastwards from the Hunsrückhöhenstraße through the so-called Biebertal (Bieberbach valley) by way of Biebern to Simmern. Wüschheim lies roughly 8 km west-northwest of Simmern.

On the ground floor of the timber-frame house that serves as the municipal centre, a bakehouse, which is still functional today, was built, along with a livestock stable. The stable was converted, half becoming a youth centre and the other half an equipment room for the Wüschheim volunteer fire brigade. The Wüschheim municipal centre was thoroughly renovated in the 1980s and also expanded considerably with a festival hall with kitchen and refrigeration rooms.

The Goßberg, a mountain lying within Wüschheim’s municipal limits, was expanded in the 1980s and was to have served as the main base for the Wüschheim Air Station (or WAS) – the Pydna missile base – after the move from “Metro Tango” – also within Wüschheim’s municipal limits – was completed.

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