Münchwald

Münchwald 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 Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe. Münchwald is a state-recognized tourism community (Fremdenverkehrsort), and with a founding date going back only as far as the time around 1700, it is also one of the district’s newest municipalities.GeographyLocationMünchwald lies roughly halfway between Bad Kreuznach and Simmern, about 20 km from each, in the southern Hunsrück, right at the Soonwald on a plateau, some 400 m above sea level.Land useAs at 31 December 2012, the 1.46 km² making up Münchwald’s municipal area broke down as follows:Neighbouring municipalitiesClockwise from the north, Münchwald’s neighbours are the municipalities of Spabrücken, Argenschwang and Spall, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.