Beltheim

Geschichte

Beltheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the central Hunsrück. The municipality’s main centre, also called Beltheim, is home to just under half its inhabitants and lies on a hilltop some 2 km north of the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders).Constituent communitiesBeltheim’s Ortsteile, besides the main, namesake centre, are Frankweiler, Heyweiler, Mannebach, Schnellbach and Sevenich.