Heinzenberg (bei Kirn)

Heinzenberg 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 Kirn-Land, whose seat is in the town of Kirn, although this lies outside the Verbandsgemeinde. With only 28 permanent inhabitants, Heinzenberg is the district’s smallest municipality.GeographyLocationHeinzenberg lies in the depths of the Kellenbach valley in the southern Hunsrück, roughly 4 km from the place where that brook empties into the Nahe. Bundesstraße 421 runs through the village.Neighbouring municipalitiesClockwise from the north, Heinzenberg’s neighbours are the municipalities of Hennweiler, Brauweiler, Hochstetten-Dhaun and Oberhausen bei Kirn, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Heinzenberg is the outlying homestead of Greberhof. There is also a homestead called the Heinzenberger Gesellschaftsmühle, suggesting a link with Heinzenberg, but this actually lies within neighbouring Hochstetten-Dhaun’s limits.