Oberbrombach

Oberbrombach is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld.

History

Oberbrombach was first mentioned in 1324.

1817 came Oberbrombach as part of the Principality of Birkenfeld to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. After the First World War, first lapidaries came to the place whose economic boom was already in the 1960s, again over. In 1937 Oberbrombach the Prussian district of Birkenfeld. After the Second World War, the village belonged to the French occupation zone and since 1946 the state of Rhineland -Palatinate. Since 1973 Oberbrombach belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld.

The development of the population of Oberbrombach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Oberbrombach consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

Mayor Helmut Brächer.

Economy and infrastructure

Today the workers are as good as worked exclusively as workers and employees outside. Of the former more than 40 agricultural full and part-time farms, only two are available.

Through the village leads the federal highway 41 in Idar -Oberstein, there is a station of the railway line Mainz / Bingen- Saarbrücken.