Schmidthachenbach

Schmidthachenbach 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.GeographyLocationSchmidthachenbach liess in the Großbach valley, a side valley of the Nahe. Half the municipal area is wooded.Neighbouring municipalitiesSchmidthachenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Heimweiler, in the east on the municipality of Becherbach bei Kirn, in the southeast on the municipality of Otzweiler, in the south on the municipality of Sienhachenbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Oberreidenbach, in the west on the municipality of Mittelreidenbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Bärenbach. The first three and last of Schmidthachenbach’s neighbours named here are in the neighbouring district of Bad Kreuznach, while the rest are in the Birkenfeld district. Schmidthachenbach also meets the municipality of Sien to the south at a single point, which is also shared with two other municipalities.