Nohen

Nohen
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Nohen within Birkenfeld district
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Coordinates: 49°38′28″N 7°14′36″E / 49.64111°N 7.24333°E / 49.64111; 7.24333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Birkenfeld
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Sascha Loch[1]
Area
• Total	7.50 km2 (2.90 sq mi)
Elevation	458 m (1,503 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	333
• Density	44/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55767
Dialling codes	06789
Vehicle registration	BIR

Nohen is an

The municipality lies at the mouth of the Röhmbach, where it empties into the Nahe.

Neighbouring municipalities

Nohen borders in the north on the municipality of

The military-strategic importance of the road link with the ford, or later bridge, was great. On the night of 23 and 24 September 1635 and the following morning, a Swedish-French army under Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar’s leadership went slogging by across the river after their defeat at Nördlingen in the Thirty Years' War on their retreat by way of Birkenfeld to Wallerfangen, even as they were being pursued by the far superior, victorious Imperial army under Count Gallas.

Until the late 18th century, Nohen belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by

Nohen's mayor is Sascha Loch.[1]

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In schräggeteiltem Schild vorne in Silber eine in der Teilung geschnittene schwarze Brücke über schräglinkem blauen Wellenband, hinten rot-silbern geschacht.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per bend argent a bridge couped at the line of partition sable above a bend sinister wavy abased azure, and chequy gules and argent.

The

The arms have been borne since 20 June 1963.^[4]

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:^[5]

• Evangelical Parish Church, Hauptstraße – stepped building complex; west tower from the 14th century, possibly older (belfry from 1953), quire and nave Late Gothic
  (nave built higher in 18th century?); characterizes village’s appearance
• Hauptstraße 26 – Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), marked 1815
• Railway bridge on the Rhine-Nahe Railway – two-arch, brick-framed sandstone-block structure over the Nahe
• Footbridge, south of the village – light, rivetted iron-rod construction, on the left bank on quarry stone underpinnings
• Inscription stone, on the way to the warriors’ memorial – possibly from the 17th century
• Warriors’ memorial, southeast of the village – for those who fell in the
  First World War
  , seven crosses, 1924, expanded in 1961

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

To the west runs

).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Birkenfeld, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.
2. Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
   . 2023.
3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
4. ^ Description and explanation of Nohen’s arms
5. ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nohen.

• Nohen in the collective municipality’s webpages (in German)
• Brief portrait of Nohen with film from SWR Fernsehen’s programme Hierzuland from 10 February 2010 (in German)