Börfink
Börfink is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
Geography
Location
The town lies on Traunbach the 816 meter high head heritage in the Black Forest High Forest in the Hunsrück. 78.8 percent of the district area is forested. In the southeast there is Abentheuer and southwest is the belonging to Neuhütten Muhl.
To Börfink includes the residential places Einschiederhof and Forellenhof Trauntal and the hamlet Thranenweier.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 1133 mm. Rainfall is very high. They are in the top tenth of the values recorded in Germany. At 91% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is July, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in July. Precipitation varies greatly. At only 23% of the stations higher seasonal variations are recorded.
History
Börfink belonged to the late 18th century to the Rear County of Sponheim and in the Prussian era to the district of Trier.
The command bunker Börfink 1964 taken in heritage head in operation. He served as the secret NATO bunker for air monitoring in Central Europe in the Cold War.
After the assignment of the district Muhl with 150 inhabitants in the municipality Neuhütten, which became effective on November 7, 1970, the village was named Börfink - Muhl was renamed on 1 January 1971 in Börfink.
The development of the population of Börfink based on the present-day municipality, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Börfink consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " In schräglinksgeteiltem sign out front red-silver geschacht, back in black a golden Köhler fire. "
It was approved in 1972 by the district government of Koblenz.
Economy and infrastructure
In the east, the highway runs 41 and to the south the Federal Highway 62 is a station on the railway line Bingen -Saarbrücken In Neubrücke.
Tourism
A stage of the long-distance route Saar- Hunsrück Climb ends in Börfink.