Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Coat of arms of Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Location of Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate is located in Germany
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wahlbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°0′02″N 7°35′48″E / 50.00056°N 7.59667°E / 50.00056; 7.59667
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictRhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.Simmern-Rheinböllen
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Volker Mayer[1]
Area
 • Total4.34 km2 (1.68 sq mi)
Elevation
440 m (1,440 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total182
 • Density42/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55494
Dialling codes06761
Vehicle registrationSIM
Websitewww.wahlbach-hunsrueck.de

Wahlbach 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 Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern. Wahlbach has some 175 inhabitants.[3]

Municipal centre on the village’s outskirts
  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.
  3. ^ "Zahlen - Daten - Fakten" (in German). Ortsgemeinde Wahlbach. Retrieved 4 February 2018.