Frei-Laubersheim

Frei-Laubersheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Kreuznach, whose seat is in the like-named town, although this lies outside the Verbandsgemeinde. Frei-Laubersheim is a winegrowing village.GeographyLocationFrei-Laubersheim lies, like Fürfeld and Neu-Bamberg, in the Rheinhessische Schweiz – Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland – a recreational region. The village lies roughly 7 km from the gates of the spa town and district seat of Bad Kreuznach and is framed by some 125 ha of vineyards and 313 ha of wooded land bordering on Bad Kreuznach’s municipal forest at Forsthaus (“forester’s house”) Spreitel.Neighbouring municipalitiesClockwise from the north, Frei-Laubersheim’s neighbours are the municipalities of Hackenheim, Volxheim, Wöllstein, Neu-Bamberg, Fürfeld and Altenbamberg and the town of Bad Kreuznach. All lie in the Bad Kreuznach district except Wöllstein, which lies in the neighbouring Alzey-Worms district.