Lauterecken | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Lauterecken within Kusel district  | |
  Lauterecken  Lauterecken | |
| Coordinates: 49°38′58″N 7°35′31″E / 49.64944°N 7.59194°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Kusel |
| Municipal assoc. | Lauterecken-Wolfstein |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Isabel Steinhauer-Theis[1] (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.91 km2 (3.44 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 169 m (554 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,996 |
| • Density | 220/km2 (580/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67742 |
| Dialling codes | 06382 |
| Vehicle registration | KUS |
| Website | www.lauterecken.de |
Lauterecken () is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein, to which it also belongs. Lauterecken bears the nickname Veldenzstadt, after the comital family that once held sway here. It is also a state-recognized tourism resort town, and in terms of state planning is laid out as a lower centre.[3]
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Kusel, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten