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	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 6 ° 56 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Traben-Trarbach
Height :	225 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.86 km 2
Residents:	427 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54516
Area code :	06571
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 033
Association administration address:	Am Markt 3 56841 Traben-Trarbach
Website :	www.flussbach.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Josef Drees
Location of the local community Flußbach in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Flußbach is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Traben-Trarbach community .

geography

Flußbach is located in the outer southern Eifel , embedded in a side valley at the foothills of the Wittlich valley . 57 percent of the municipal area is forested. The closest middle center is Wittlich in the south.

history

The place Flussbach (Vlosbach) was first mentioned in 1220, when Gottfried von Ingenbach was well off there. Flußbach was part of Kurtrier . From 1794 Flußbach was under French rule, in 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

The development of the population of Flußbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 138 1835 181 1871 193 1905 199 1939 243

year Residents 1950 242 1961 219 1970 281 1987 343 2005 458

Municipal council

The municipal council in Flußbach consists of eight council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The eight seats are divided between two groups of voters .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the east of the municipality runs the federal highway 1 , where the next junction Hasborn is about three kilometers away. In Wittlich there is a train station on the Moselle line .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Flußbach
• List of natural monuments in Flußbach

literature

• Albert Hardt: Middle Rhine Regesten. Register volume , Wiesbaden 1999, DNB 956688098 .

Web links

Commons : Flußbach  - collection of images

• Website of the local community Flußbach
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Flußbach in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Flußbach women's prison camp, mahnmal-koblenz.de
• Link catalog on the topic of river brook at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections