Waldmohr

Geschichte

Waldmohr is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies at the western end of the Landstuhler Bruch, right at the state boundary with the Saarland roughly 15 km southwest of Kusel, and 10 km north of Homburg. Spreading out along a length of the Glan into the hills on each side, Waldmohr’s municipal area reaches elevations of 362 m above sea level at the Waldziegelhütte and 234 m above sea level at the Eichelscheid . The chain of hills, Steines, Fuchsberg, Bolsten, Schachen and Heidenkopf with Oehlbühl, which slope down to the south towards the Glan, and the mountain ridges, Häupel, Mühlfeld, Härtel, and Krämmel, which even out gently towards the north and east, are heavily settled along the greater thoroughfares leading to the heart of the village. Landesstraße 355 bypasses the village to the east and links it to the Autobahn. The river Glan, which rises in neighbouring Höchen, receives considerable contributions at Waldmohr’s municipal limit, where the Branschbach and the Mörschbach empty into it at the edge of the Dörrberg. Several big ponds and many fishing ponds enrich the landscape’s appearance. The old tank trench at the Eichelscheiderhof has long been a renaturated stretch of the Glan