Börfink

Börfink 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.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies on the Traunbach near the 816 m-high Erbeskopf in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 78.8% wooded.Neighbouring municipalitiesBörfink borders in the southeast on Abentheuer and in the southwest on Muhl, an outlying centre of Neuhütten.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Börfink are the outlying homesteads of Einschiederhof, Forellenhof Trauntal and Thranenweier.ClimateYearly precipitation in Börfink amounts to 1 133 mm, which is very high, falling into the highest tenth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 91% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is July. The most rainfall comes in December. In that month, precipitation is 1.5 times what it is in July. Precipitation varies markedly. Only at 23% of the weather stations are higher seasonal swings recorded.