Reipoltskirchen

Reipoltskirchen
Coat of arms of Reipoltskirchen
Location of Reipoltskirchen within Kusel district
Reipoltskirchen is located in Germany
Reipoltskirchen
Reipoltskirchen
Reipoltskirchen is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Reipoltskirchen
Reipoltskirchen
Coordinates: 49°38′4.6″N 7°39′42.25″E / 49.634611°N 7.6617361°E / 49.634611; 7.6617361
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictKusel
Municipal assoc.Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Ernst Eckert[1]
Area
 • Total7.49 km2 (2.89 sq mi)
Elevation
208 m (682 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total353
 • Density47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
67753
Dialling codes06364
Vehicle registrationKUS
Websitewww.reipoltskirchen.de
Lordship of Reipoltskirchen
Herrschaft Reipoltskirchen
before 1500–1792
StatusState of the Holy Roman Empire
CapitalReipoltskirchen
GovernmentPrincipality
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Church first built
    in Richbaldes
 
ca 750
• First mention of
    Reipoltskirchen
 
1198
• Gained Reichsfreiheit
before 1500
• Annexed by France (to Saar)
1792
 
1816
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Electorate of the Palatinate Electorate of the Palatinate
Sarre (département)

Reipoltskirchen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein.

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