Börfink

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '  N , 7 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	515 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.22 km 2
Residents:	167 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54422
Area code :	06782
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 011
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.gemeinde-boerfink.de
Local Mayor :	Martin Döscher
Location of the local community Börfink in the district of Birkenfeld

Börfink is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Birkenfeld community .

geography

location

The place is on the Traunbach at the 816 meter high Erbeskopf in the Black Forest high forest in the Hunsrück . 78.8 percent of the district area is forested. To the southeast is Abentheuer and southwest lies the to Neuhütten belonging Muhl .

Börfink also includes the Einiederhof and Forellenhof Trauntal residential areas and the hamlet of Thranenweier.

Börfink is a national park community in the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park .

climate

The annual precipitation is 1133 mm. The rainfall is very high. They are in the upper tenth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 91% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is July, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in July. Precipitation varies greatly. Higher seasonal fluctuations are registered at only 23% of the measuring stations .

history

Börfink belonged to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim until the end of the 18th century and to the district of Trier in Prussian times .

The Börfink command bunker , called Bunker Erwin , was put into operation in 1964 in Erbeskopf. Among other things, it served as a secret NATO bunker for air surveillance in Central Europe during the Cold War .

After the assignment of the district Muhl with 150 inhabitants to the municipality of Neuhütten , which came into effect on November 7, 1970, the municipality, which was called Börfink-Muhl, was renamed Börfink on January 1, 1971 .

Population development

The development of the population of Börfink in relation to today's municipality, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 300 1835 461 1871 307 1905 341 1939 213 1950 209 1961 327

year Residents 1970 230 1987 209 1997 217 2005 192 2011 192 2017 172 2019 167

politics

Municipal council

The council in Börfink consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In the front, red-silver sheathed shield, which is divided obliquely to the left, behind a golden charcoal fire in black." It was approved by the Koblenz District Government in 1972 .

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 41 runs in the east and the federal highway 62 in the south . In Neubrücke there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line . The bus route 323 in the Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund connects Börfink with Birkenfeld.

tourism

One stage of the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig long-distance hiking trail ends in Börfink. One of the premium hiking trails in the Saar-Hunsrück region, known as dream loops , runs around Börfink . It is the approximately 9 kilometer long Börfinker Ochsentour , which among other things leads through a particularly protected moor area. The newly created national park island tour of 1.6 kilometers in length, which aims to convey "interesting facts about the origin, preservation and diversity of the species occurring there", runs in the Thranenweier district .

Photo gallery

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  Central in Börfink, the Dorfstrasse , which leads right through the small town

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  The bell tower with the Johann Peter pilgrim bell

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  Voluntary fire brigade and parish hall, built in 1842. The building served as a school until 1969

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  The listed old mill of Börfink

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  The national park monument Punkt am Traunbach , erected in 2015

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  A wooden footbridge leads on the National Park Dream Loop Börfinker Ochsentour through the specially protected moorland Ochsenbruch

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Börfink

Web links

Commons : Börfink  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Börfink
• Literature about Börfink in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• In this country (SWR): Dorfstraße in Börfink from October 30, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 28 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 190 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Website of the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig, accessed on February 1, 2014
7. ↑ German Hiking Institute: Börfinker Ochsentour accessed on August 27, 2020
8. ↑ Birkenfelder Land: National Park Island Tour Thranenweier accessed on August 27, 2020