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Location of Badenhard within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Emmelshausen |
| Mayor | Dirk Jost |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 3.00 km2 (1.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 435 m (1427 ft) |
| Population | 132 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 44 /km2 (114 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | SIM |
| Postal code | 56291 |
| Area code | 06746 |
Badenhard 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 Emmelshausen, whose seat is in the like-named town.
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Badenhard lies on a high ridge in the east Hunsrück, between the Middle Rhine valley and Autobahn A 61.
Lying right near Badenhard are Utzenhain and Birkheim.
The feudal landholders were until the French occupation in 1794 were the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Landgraviate of Hesse. In 1815 Badenhard was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. In 1908, the building of the local church was financed by a local woman. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The municipality’s majority is Evangelical.
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman[2].
Badenhard’s mayor is Dirk Jost[3].
The German blazon reads: In geteiltem Schild oben in Gold drei rote Eichenblätter nebeneinander, unten in Blau zwei silberne Ähren.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess Or three oakleaves palewise in fess slipped gules and azure issuant from base and throughout two ears of wheat argent.
The Ortsgemeinde of Badenhard is even today a community well defined by agriculture and forestry. The oakleaves refer to the broadleaf forests, and the ears of wheat to agriculture. While the charges refer to the municipality itself, the tinctures refer to the old feudal landholders, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Landgraviate of Hesse[4].
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Badenhard lies only a few kilometres from Autobahn A 61.
Living in Badenhard is the typographer Hans Schmidt.