Schauren (bei Idar-Oberstein)

Schauren 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 Rhaunen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Hunsrück at the edge of the Idar Forest. The municipal area is 64.4% wooded.Neighbouring municipalitiesSchauren borders in the north on the municipality of Hellertshausen, in the northeast on the municipality of Asbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Kempfeld, in the southwest on the municipality of Bruchweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Morbach which, unlike all the others, is not in the Birkenfeld district, but rather in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Schauren are the outlying homesteads of Aschiedermühle and Schaurenermühle.