Oberbrombach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Oberbrombach (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	478 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.56 km 2
Residents:	394 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55767
Area code :	06787
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 062
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.oberbrombach.de
Local Mayor :	Rudiger Scherer
Location of the local community Oberbrombach in the Birkenfeld district

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

history

Oberbrombach was first mentioned in a document in 1324.

In 1817, Oberbrombach came to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as part of the Principality of Birkenfeld . After the First World War, the first gemstone cutters appeared in the village, but their economic prosperity was over by the 1960s. In 1937 Oberbrombach came to the Prussian district of Birkenfeld. After the Second World War, the place belonged to the French zone of occupation and since 1946 to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Oberbrombach has been part of the Birkenfeld community since 1973 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 194 1835 244 1871 294 1905 338 1939 403 1950 411

year Residents 1961 458 1970 452 1987 493 1997 523 2005 494 2019 394

politics

Municipal council

The council in Oberbrombach 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. In 2009–2014 the municipality council had twelve council members.

mayor

Local mayor is Rüdiger Scherer.

Economy and Infrastructure

Today the gainfully employed are practically exclusively employed outside of the country. Of the formerly more than 40 full and part-time farms, only two still exist.

The federal road 41 leads through the village . In Idar-Oberstein there is a train station on the Mainz / Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

literature

• Freimut Heiderich: Oberbrombach - history of the place. Published as special issue 55 of the communications of the Association for Local Studies in the Birkenfeld district, ISSN  0341-6992 , Birkenfeld 1989.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Oberbrombach
• List of natural monuments in Oberbrombach

Web links

Commons : Oberbrombach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Oberbrombach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• Local portrait of SWR television
• Literature about Oberbrombach 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