Kronweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 16 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.51 km 2
Residents:	319 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55767
Area code :	06787
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 048
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.kronweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Jochen Bier
Location of the local community Kronweiler in the district of Birkenfeld

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

geography

Kronweiler is located on the upper reaches of the Nahe in the southwestern Hunsrück . In the village of the leads Idarwald herkommende Schwoll Bach in the vicinity.

Kronweiler also includes the Hangelbösch settlement and the old loop residential area .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1360. It was part of the rear county of Sponheim .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 128 1835 177 1871 268 1905 318 1939 376

year Residents 1950 434 1961 465 1970 458 1987 395 1993 390

year Residents 1997 386 2005 346 2011 328 2017 321 2019 319

politics

Municipal council

The council in Kronweiler consists of eight 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 : "Under a red and silver shield head in blue, a silver sloping wave bar, above a golden crown." It was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1964 .

traffic

The federal highway 41 runs in the northwest and the federal highway 62 in the south . There is a train station for the Nahe Valley Railway between Saarbrücken and Bingen am Rhein in the village .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Kronweiler
• Fischerhof

Web links

Commons : Kronweiler  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Kronweiler
• Local community Kronweiler on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• Literature about Kronweiler 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 29 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 28, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.