Damscheid

Damscheid
Coat of arms of Damscheid
Location of Damscheid within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Damscheid is located in Germany
Damscheid
Damscheid
Damscheid is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Damscheid
Damscheid
Coordinates: 50°6′12″N 7°40′59″E / 50.10333°N 7.68306°E / 50.10333; 7.68306
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictRhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.Hunsrück-Mittelrhein
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Peter Kuhn[1]
Area
 • Total15.10 km2 (5.83 sq mi)
Highest elevation
360 m (1,180 ft)
Lowest elevation
340 m (1,120 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total671
 • Density44/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55432
Dialling codes06744
Vehicle registrationSIM
Websitewww.damscheid.de

Damscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen.

  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.