- Gornhausen
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Gornhausen 
GornhausenLocation of Gornhausen within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates 49°51′38″N 7°02′46″E / 49.86056°N 7.04611°ECoordinates: 49°51′38″N 7°02′46″E / 49.86056°N 7.04611°E Administration Country Germany State Rhineland-Palatinate District Bernkastel-Wittlich Municipal assoc. Bernkastel-Kues Mayor Rainer Schommer Basic statistics Area 5.30 km2 (2.05 sq mi) Elevation 490 m (1608 ft) Population 215 (31 December 2010)[1] - Density 41 /km2 (105 /sq mi) Other information Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Licence plate WIL Postal code 54472 Area code 06531 Website www.gornhausen.de Gornhausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Geography
Location
The municipality lies at the foot of the Haardtkopf (658 m above sea level) in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 63.2% wooded. The nearest middle centre is Bernkastel-Kues; the nearest upper centre is Trier. Gornhausen belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bernkastel-Kues, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Neighbouring municipalities
Among the neighbouring municipalities are Veldenz, Burgen, Morbach-Elzerath and Brauneberg-Hirzlei.
Climate
Yearly precipitation in Gornhausen amounts to 869 mm, which is rather high, falling into the highest third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 74% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.3 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies minimally and is very evenly spread throughout the year. At only 1% of the weather stations are lower seasonal swings recorded.
History
Gornhausen belonged, along with the seat, Veldenz, and the villages of Burgen, Mülheim, Brauneberg and Andel (today an outlying centre of Bernkastel-Kues) to the County of Veldenz.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]
Coat of arms
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess azure three mullets in fess argent and argent a castle emerging from base with a central tower embattled and two side towers with conical roofs sable, the windows and gateway of the field.
Culture and sightseeing
View over Gornhausen
Worth seeing in Gornhausen are a 300-year-old oak, an old mill (Klaramühle), the Berbelay (crags with a good view), the Haardtkopf Transmitter and a view into the Eifel and the Moselle region around Bernkastel-Kues.
Regular events
In summer, mostly in early August, Gornhausen is, together with the other municipalities in the former County of Veldenz, the host of the ADAC Deutschlandrallye.
Transmitter on the Haardtkopf
Since 1952, there has been on the Haardtkopf a 186 m-tall transmitter, the Haardtkopf Transmitter (Sender Haardtkopf).
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf.
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage (German)
- Gornhausen in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)
Categories:- Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Bernkastel-Wittlich geography stubs
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