Morscheid-Riedenburg

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Morscheid-Riedenburg is a district of the independent municipality of Morbach in the Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The local district has about 520 inhabitants (2019).

The area southwest of the core town of Morbach with Morscheid-Riedenburg, Hoxel and Wolzburg is called the Balkans .

The coat of arms of Morscheid-Riedenburg shows in the right half of the shield a silver grating on a red background, in the left half of the shield three green sedge with black cobs on a silver background, underneath green waves. The grating stands for the parish patron St. Laurentius , who died a martyr's death on an iron grating. The sedge refers directly to the name Riedenburg.

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  1. That is why the Balkans are called the Balkans

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 4 ″  E