Bundenbach

Bundenbach 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.For its roughly 400-million-year-old fossils of Placodermi and other creatures from the Devonian, Bundenbach is said to be a world-class fossil Lagerstätte.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies on the Hunsrück Schiefer- und Burgenstraße (“Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road”).Neighbouring municipalitiesThe nearest major towns are Kirn, Idar-Oberstein and Simmern. Neighbouring municipalities are Rhaunen, Bollenbach, Schneppenbach and Bruschied.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Bundenbach are the outlying homesteads of Neumühle and Reinhardsmühle.