Bollenbach

Bollenbach 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 Rhaunen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.GeographyThis is full of green land spreading for over 57 miles. It has many block huts built forming small cities. It is nearly abandoned.LocationThe municipality lies in the Hunsrück, east of the Idar Forest.Neighbouring municipalitiesBollenbach borders in the north on Rhaunen, in the east on Bundenbach and in the southwest on Sulzbach.HistoryIn the Middle Ages, Bollenbach was made up of two parts, the Hochgericht (“High Court”) and the Ingericht, which belonged respectively to the two lordly houses of Schmidtburg and Wildenburg. The “boundary” between these two parts of the village is unaccountably still visible today as a bare strip on which nothing has been built, running through the middle of the village.