Bundenbach

Bundenbach
Coat of arms of Bundenbach
Location of Bundenbach within Birkenfeld district
Bundenbach is located in Germany
Bundenbach
Bundenbach
Bundenbach is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bundenbach
Bundenbach
Coordinates: 49°50′34″N 7°22′43″E / 49.84278°N 7.37861°E / 49.84278; 7.37861
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBirkenfeld
Municipal assoc.Herrstein-Rhaunen
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Verena Mächtel[1]
Area
 • Total
7.70 km2 (2.97 sq mi)
Elevation
400 m (1,300 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total
843
 • Density110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55626
Dialling codes06544
Vehicle registrationBIR
Websitewww.bundenbach.de
Reconstructed Celtic heights settlement
Hahnenbach valley

Bundenbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in Herrstein.

For its roughly 400-million-year-old fossils of Placodermi and other creatures from the Devonian, Bundenbach is said to be a world-class fossil Lagerstätte.

  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Birkenfeld, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.