Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Area :	213.17 km 2
Residents:	20,521 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	BIR
Association key :	07 1 34 5002
Association structure:	31 municipalities
Association administration address :	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.vg-birkenfeld.de
Mayor :	Bernhard Alscher
Location of the Birkenfeld community in the Birkenfeld district

Local congregations in the association congregation

The Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority to which the city of Birkenfeld and 30 independent local communities belong. The seat of the municipal administration is in Birkenfeld. The association is located in the district of Birkenfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate on the border with Saarland . It lies between the Hunsrück and the North Palatinate Uplands mainly north of the upper Nahe .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Adventure	6.12	432
Achtelsbach	9.70	399
Birkenfeld , city	13.58	7,016
Börfink	8.22	167
bridges	13.62	1,208
Buhlenberg	8.44	497
Dambach	2.98	150
Service hamlet	6.69	334
Elk hamlet	2.15	88
Ellenberg	2.01	94
Ellweiler	7.46	298
Gimbweiler	5.53	388
Gollenberg	3.25	116
Hattgenstein	8.21	252
Hoppstädten-Weiersbach	17.87	3,703
Kronweiler	3.51	319
Quiet	8.82	534
Meckenbach	3.78	120
Niederbrombach	7.28	482
Niederhambach	9.77	320
Nohen	7.50	329
Oberbrombach	6.56	394
Oberhambach	5.11	257
Rimsberg	3.20	116
Rinzenberg	11.33	293
Rötsweiler-Nockenthal	3.21	482
Schmissberg	1.68	216
Swelling	8.83	435
Siesbach	7.43	363
Sonnenberg-Winnenberg	2.87	437
Wilzenberg-Hussweiler	6.46	282
Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld	213.14	20,521

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 7,367 1835 10,591 1871 11,255 1905 11,543 1939 14,480 1950 15,042

year Residents 1961 17,430 1970 18,542 1987 18,426 1997 20,399 2005 20,326 2019 20,521

politics

Association municipal council

The Birkenfeld municipal council consists of 36 honorary council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	GREEN	BFL	LUB	total
2019	11	13	-	4th	5	3	36 seats
2014	12	11	-	1	5	3	32 seats
2009	14th	12	3	-	7th	-	36 seats
2004	14th	15th	2	-	5	-	36 seats

• BFL = Birkenfelder Free List e. V.
• LUB = List of Independent Citizens e. V.

mayor

Bernhard Alscher (Birkenfeld Free List) has been the mayor of the Birkenfeld community since October 15, 2008. In the runoff election on April 3, 2016, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 53.2% of the votes, after none of the original four applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on March 13, 2016.

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office 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 RLP: Association council election 2019 Birkenfeld. Retrieved August 12, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld: Mayor: Mayor Dr. Bernhard Alscher. Retrieved December 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Nahe-Zeitung: Mayor election in the VG Birkenfeld: Bernhard Alscher has his second term firmly in his sights. February 18, 2016, accessed December 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ People's friend: Bernhard Alscher remains mayor of the Birkenfeld community. April 4, 2016, accessed December 10, 2019 .