Wickenrodt

Wickenrodt
Coat of arms
Wickenrodt
Location of Wickenrodt within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°48′58″N 07°21′33″E / 49.81611°N 7.35917°E / 49.81611; 7.35917Coordinates: 49°48′58″N 07°21′33″E / 49.81611°N 7.35917°E / 49.81611; 7.35917
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Herrstein
Government
• Mayor	Otmar Glöckner
Area
• Total	5.27 km2 (2.03 sq mi)
Elevation	397 m (1,302 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	169
• Density	32/km2 (83/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55758
Dialling codes	06785
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.wickenrodt.de

Wickenrodt 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 municipality lies in the Hunsrück on a plateau overlooking the Hahnenbach valley between Idar-Oberstein and Rhaunen.

Wickenrodt borders in the north on the municipality of Bollenbach, in the northeast on the municipality of Bundenbach, in the east on the municipality of Sonnschied, in the south on the municipality of Niederhosenbach, in the southwest on the municipalities of Breitenthal and Oberhosenbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Sulzbach. Wickenrodt also meets the municipality of Griebelschied at a single point in the southeast.

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.

Wickenrodt’s mayor is Michael Adam.

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend vert a stylized W and in base an adze in bend argent, and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.