Wilzenberg-Hußweiler

Coat of arms

Location of Wilzenberg-Hußweiler within Birkenfeld district

Coordinates: 49°42′12.100″N 7°13′23.12″E / 49.70336111°N 7.2230889°ECoordinates: 49°42′12.100″N 7°13′23.12″E / 49.70336111°N 7.2230889°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Werner Mildenberger

Area

• Total

6.46 km² (2.49 sq mi)

Elevation

350 m (1,150 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

303

• Density

47/km² (120/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55767

06787

BIR

Wilzenberg-Hußweiler (or Wilzenberg-Hussweiler) 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 Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.

This double municipality, consisting of the Ortsteile of Wilzenberg and Hußweiler, lies on the Schwollbach at the edge of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 52.6% wooded.

Wilzenberg-Hußweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Siesbach, in the northeast on the municipality of Rötsweiler-Nockenthal, in the east on the municipality of Oberbrombach, in the south on the municipality of Niederbrombach, in the southwest on the municipality of Niederhambach, in the west on the municipality of Schwollen and in the northwest on the municipality of Leisel.

In 1344, Hußweiler had its first documentary mention, while Wilzenberg was first mentioned in 1438. Both places belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim. After the Congress of Vienna, both Hußweiler and Wilzenberg became part of the Principality of Birkenfeld, an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, most of whose territory was in what is now northwest Germany, with a coastline on the North Sea. In the course of administrative restructuring in Oldenburg under the Nazis, Wilzenberg and Hußweiler were amalgamated into one municipality on 22 September 1933.

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