Olsbrücken

Olsbrücken is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.GeographicalOlsbrücken is situated in the northern part of the district of Kaiserslautern. There it can be found in the valley of the small river Lauter which is surrounded by the hills of the Nordpfälzer Bergland.NeighboursThe boundary of the community which is sized as much as 2.78 sq mi borders on the north to the village of Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Wörsbach on the northeast, Schallodenbach on the east, Mehlbach on the southeast, Hirschhorn/Pfalz on the south and Sulzbachtal and Frankelbach on the west.Local geographyThe roads inside the village are named in alphabetical order: Am Berg, Am Hanhgraben, Am Rutzenbach, Am Waldhof, Auf den Wingerten, Bachstraße, Bahnhofstraße, Bornweg, Dietenbachstraße, Hauptstraße, Hebelstraße, Hohlstraße, Im Holzgraben, Im Kirschgarten, Kirchweg, Schneidersäcker und Wörsbacher Straße. There is also a road named Am Habel, but it is actually only a pathway to one single private house. The train station of Olsbrücken is placed a few metres outside of the local boundaries, so the ground there belongs to the village of Frankelbach. Nevertheless, the stations name is Olsbrücken. The local subboundaries are very small parts. Regarding to the history of splitting farming ground into parts as a reason of heritage, one should not be surprised that over 100 different names can be found in ground maps. Not only a few of them are still in use in the common language of the inhabitants. E.g. people say that they go onto the Oberberg, if the walk to the hut of the Pfälzerwaldverein. And in fact the area there is named Oberberg in ground maps.