Baumholder (Verbandsgemeinde)

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The community of Baumholder is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. The municipality includes the town of Baumholder and 13 independent local churches, the head office is located in the eponymous city of Baumholder.

It is located south of the Nahe between the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands and borders, among others, to the Kusel district and the district of Sankt Wendel ( Saarland). The community of Baumholder is also in the so-called West Rich.

In the 14 the municipality belonging to communities living close to 10,000 inhabitants. There are also around 8,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Population Development

The development of the population based on the territory of the present community of Baumholder; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council Baumholder consists of 28 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the federation council:

Mayor

Mayor Peter Lang ( SPD).

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: "shield divided by a crescendo curly golden peak therein on green Dreienberg a green ( elderberry ) tree, on both sides of the trunk each a silver elderflower, front red and gold chess, rear rotbewehrter and gezungter blue lion in gold. Sign board of red, gold and blue 8-fold confess changes ".

1965, it was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior.