Fohren-Linden

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Baumholder
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.6 km 2
Residents:	327 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55777
Area code :	06783
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 026
Association administration address:	Am Weiherdamm 1 ; 55774 Baumholder
Website :	www.fohren-linden.de
Local Mayor :	Gerd Schug
Location of the local community Fohren-Linden in the Birkenfeld district

Fohren-Linden is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Baumholder community .

geography

The municipality is located in the Unnertal in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate in the southern Hunsrück near the Saarland border.

The Finkenmühle residential area also belongs to Fohren-Linden .

history

The name is made up of a modification of the word " Föhre " (conifer) and the name of the linden tree that still characterizes the town today . But there is also the possibility that the first part of the place name derives from the word “Forrn”, an outdated term for “trout”: After all, historical documents show that the Unnerbach was once a very productive Fischbach.

What is certain, however, is the first written mention of the village, which chroniclers date to the year 960.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Fohren-Linden 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. Until 2014, the council had eight council members.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver a black crutch , above a red armored and tongued growing blue lion, below in front a pine branch, behind a green linden leaf."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lion points to the former belonging to the county of Veldenz , Föhrenzweig and Lindenblatt mean the names of the two districts. The coat of arms was approved by a decree of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior of March 15, 1963.