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Buhlenberg
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Location of Buhlenberg within Birkenfeld district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Birkenfeld |
| Municipal assoc. | Birkenfeld |
| Municipal assoc. | Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld |
| Mayor | Dieter Pilger |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 8.44 km2 (3.26 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 480 m (1575 ft) |
| Population | 499 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 59 /km2 (153 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | BIR |
| Postal code | 55767 |
| Area code | 06782 |
Buhlenberg 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.
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The municipality lies three kilometres northwest of the district seat of Birkenfeld in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück, on the edge of the Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück near the Erbeskopf, Rhineland-Palatinate’s highest mountain.
Also belonging to Buhlenberg are the outlying homesteads of Berghof, Etzweilerhof, Grenzhof and Waldhof[2].
Buhlenberg once belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim.
From 29 July to 8 August 2009, the Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder held its National Scout Jamboree in Buhlenberg[3].
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman[4].
Buhlenberg’s mayor is Dieter Pilger, and his deputies are Kurt Müller and Kurt Schulz[5].
The German blazon reads: In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne rot-silbern geschacht, hinten in Silber über blauem Dreiberg ein blauer Wolfskopf.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per bend sinister chequy of gules and argent and argent issuant from base a mound of three, above which a wolf’s head caboshed, both azure.
The “chequy” pattern on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, Oberamt of Birkenfeld. The charge in base on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side, known in German heraldry as a Dreiberg, is in part canting for the village’s name, at least for the last syllable, for Berg means “mountain” in German, and it also refers to the village’s high elevation and the Gebück mountain ridge. The wolf’s head refers to the Wolfskaul, an area within municipal limits where there was once a wolf-catching pit.
The arms have been borne since 26 August 1963[6].
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[7]
To the east runs Bundesstraße 269, and to the south runs the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier). Serving nearby Neubrücke is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway.