Rinzenberg

Geschichte

Rinzenberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies at the southern edge of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald, a self-contained forest within the Hunsrück. The municipal area measures 1 133 ha, of which somewhat more than half is state forest, and indeed 76.5% of it is wooded. The area makes Rinzenberg the district’s seventh biggest municipality by land area. Only the three towns (Birkenfeld, Idar-Oberstein and Baumholder) and the municipalities of Allenbach, Hoppstädten-Weiersbach and Brücken have larger municipal areas. Rinzenberg’s elevation is roughly 532 m above sea level, and above the village looms the 668 m-high “Wehlenstein”.Neighbouring municipalitiesRinzenberg borders in the northeast on the municipality of Oberhambach, in the east on the municipality of Gollenberg and in the south on the municipalities of Ellenberg and Buhlenberg.