Külz

Külz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationKülz is a rural residential community in the Hunsrück whose buildings are somewhat spread out. The municipality lies in the Külzbach valley and has a Landesstraße (State Road) passing through it. The municipal area measures 6.92 km², of which 1.71 km² is covered by municipal woodlands. Külz lies 350 m above sea level, roughly 4 km northwest of Simmern.Constituent communitiesKülz has two outlying Ortsteile named Gass and Taubenmühle.HistoryThe Ortsgemeinde of Külz came into being through the merger of the Ortsteile of Eichkülz on the one hand and Külz with the Ortsteil of Gaß, the boundary between which was the Külzbach, on the other. Eichkülz lay on the brook’s right bank in the former territory governed by the provost at Ravengiersburg Monastery. The two other centres over on the brook’s left bank, however, lay in the former Imperial territory that King Albrecht pledged to Count Simon II of Sponheim in 1302. These Imperial rights were acquired shortly thereafter by the Elector of the Palatinate.