Gollenberg (near Birkenfeld)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	512 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.25 km 2
Residents:	116 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55767
Area code :	06782
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 031
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.gollenberg.de
Local Mayor :	Ralf Simon
Location of the local community of Gollenberg in the Birkenfeld district

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

geography

The village is on the edge of the Black Forest high forest in the Hunsrück . To the south are Birkenfeld and Ellenberg , west Rinzenberg and north is Oberhambach .

history

Gollenberg was first mentioned in 1415 as "Gulderberg". In the 1920s, pyrite was mined near the town , but mining was soon stopped again. From 1934 to 1952 Gollenberg and neighboring were Ellenberg combined in the municipality Gollenberg-Ellenberg.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 121 1835 157 1871 137 1905 128 1939 96 1950 92

year Residents 1961 116 1970 120 1987 130 1997 132 2005 136 2019 116

politics

Municipal council

The council in Gollenberg 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

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In the obliquely left divided shield, red and silver sheathed in front, behind a golden three-mountain in green."

The golden Dreiberg symbolizes the place name ( talking coat of arms ), the checkerboard pattern reminds of the former affiliation to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim . The coat of arms was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1963 .

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 269 runs in the west and the federal highway 62 in the south . In Neubrücke there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

people

• Otto Dreyer (1903–1986), politician (NSDAP)
• Walter Beyer (1920–2012), economist, civil servant and local politician (SPD)

Web links

Commons : Gollenberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Gollenberg on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• Short portrait with a film about Gollenberg on SWR television
• Literature about Gollenberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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