Belgweiler

Belgweiler 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 Simmern, whose seat is in the town of the same name.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Simmerbach valley in the central Hunsrück.Constituent communitiesBelgweiler has a small outlying hamlet named Wimmersbacherhof.Land useThis breaks down in Belgweiler as follows: Agriculture – 68.9%Forest – 18.8%Water – 1.0%Residential and transport – 11.2%Other – 0.1%HistoryIn 1285, Belgweiler had its first documentary mention. Beginning in 1794, Belgweiler was 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.