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Niersbach 
NiersbachLocation of Niersbach within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates 49°56′25″N 6°44′33″E / 49.94028°N 6.7425°ECoordinates: 49°56′25″N 6°44′33″E / 49.94028°N 6.7425°E Administration Country Germany State Rhineland-Palatinate District Bernkastel-Wittlich Municipal assoc. Wittlich-Land Mayor Stephan Becker Basic statistics Area 12.81 km2 (4.95 sq mi) Elevation 280 m (919 ft) Population 686 (31 December 2010)[1] - Density 54 /km2 (139 /sq mi) Other information Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Licence plate WIL Postal code 54518 Area codes 06508, 06575 Niersbach 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 in the Eifel and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wittlich-Land, whose seat is in Wittlich, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.
Constituent communities
Niersbach has one outlying centre, the Ortsteil of Greverath.
History
In 1473, Niersbach had its first documentary mention as Nydersbach. Beginning in 1794, Niersbach lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Today’s municipality was newly formed out of the dissolved municipalities of Niersbach and Greverath on 10 June 1979.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results[2]:
WG Krumeich WG Becker FWG Greverath Total 2009 3 7 2 12 seats Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: In Silber über grünem Wellenschildfuß eine blaue Töpferscheibe, beseitet von je einer roten Flamme, darüber ein blauer Topf.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Over a base wavy vert argent a potter’s wheel on which a pot, both azure, between two flames gules.
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
- Niersbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)
- Brief portrait of Greverath with film at SWR Fernsehen (German)
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Categories:- Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Bernkastel-Wittlich geography stubs
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