Oberkirn

Oberkirn
Coat of arms of Oberkirn
Location of Oberkirn within Birkenfeld district
Oberkirn is located in Germany
Oberkirn
Oberkirn
Oberkirn is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Oberkirn
Oberkirn
Coordinates: 49°53′9″N 7°22′20″E / 49.88583°N 7.37222°E / 49.88583; 7.37222
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBirkenfeld
Municipal assoc.Herrstein-Rhaunen
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Alfons Klingels[1]
Area
 • Total
5.45 km2 (2.10 sq mi)
Elevation
315 m (1,033 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total
328
 • Density60/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55624
Dialling codes06544
Vehicle registrationBIR
Websitewww.oberkirn.de
The village lies in the Kyrbach valley, in the background the Idarkopf

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

  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.