Niederhosenbach

Niederhosenbach 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 Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies north of the river Nahe between Kirn and Herrstein. The municipal area is 43.4% wooded.Neighbouring municipalitiesNiederhosenbach’s neighbours are Herrstein, Breitenthal, Wickenrodt, Sonnschied, Griebelschied and Bergen.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Niederhosenbach are the outlying homesteads of “Auf dem Büchelchen”, “Heupenmühle” and “Zwischen den Seen”.HistoryVanished villageSouth of Niederhosenbach, on the Hosenbach’s left bank before the “Allholz” woods and opposite the Etzelberg once stood a village named Hitzelhosenbach. A plaque at the site recalls the now long-vanished village. Standing at the spot where the road from Niederhosenbach to Fischbach crosses the brook was the Etzelberger Mühle, which burnt down in 1913.