Veitsrodt

Veitsrodt 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 at the edge of the Hunsrück on the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”), roughly 5 km north of Idar-Oberstein.Neighbouring municipalitiesVeitsrodt borders in the north on the municipality of Herborn, in the east on the municipality of Niederwörresbach, in the south on the municipality of Vollmersbach, in the west on the town of Idar-Oberstein and the municipality of Kirschweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Kempfeld. Veitsrodt also meets the town of Idar-Oberstein elsewhere, at a single point in the southeast.Constituent communitiesAlso belonging to Veitsrodt are the outlying homesteads of Lindenhof, Strudthof and Ziegelhütte.