Benzweiler
Benzweiler | |
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Location of Benzweiler
within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Simmern-Rheinböllen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Hans-Joachim Kunz[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.19 km2 (1.23 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 389 m (1,276 ft) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55494 |
| Dialling codes | 06766 |
| Vehicle registration | SIM |
| Website | www |
Benzweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛntsvaɪlɐ]) 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 Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern. Benzweiler is a tourism municipality (Fremdenverkehrsgemeinde).
Geography
[edit | edit source]Location
[edit | edit source]The municipality lies in the Hunsrück.
History
[edit | edit source]Six barrows northeast of the village make it plain that Celts settled here in antiquity. Beginning in 1794, Benzweiler lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Population development
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Politics
[edit | edit source]Municipal council
[edit | edit source]The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
[edit | edit source]Benzweiler's mayor is Hans-Joachim Kunz.[1]
Culture and sightseeing
[edit | edit source]Buildings
[edit | edit source]The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
- Hauptstraße 4 – building with half-hipped roof, partly timber framing sided, about 1820
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Municipality’s official webpage (in German)
- Brief portrait of Benzweiler with film at SWR Fernsehen (in German)
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