Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
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Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ' N , 7 ° 10' E |
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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 |
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Mayor : | Bernhard Alscher | |
Location of the Birkenfeld community in the Birkenfeld district | ||
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 |
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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:
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council election 2019 Birkenfeld. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld: Mayor: Mayor Dr. Bernhard Alscher. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ People's friend: Bernhard Alscher remains mayor of the Birkenfeld community. April 4, 2016, accessed December 10, 2019 .