Wickenrodt
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Wickenrodt | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Wickenrodt
within Birkenfeld district
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 Location of Wickenrodt | |
  Wickenrodt  Wickenrodt | |
| Coordinates: 49°48′58″N 07°21′33″E / 49.81611°N 7.35917°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Birkenfeld |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein-Rhaunen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Michael Adam[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.27 km2 (2.03 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 397 m (1,302 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 160 |
| • Density | 30/km2 (79/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55758 |
| Dialling codes | 06785 |
| Vehicle registration | BIR |
| Website | www.wickenrodt.de |
Wickenrodt 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.
Location
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück on a plateau overlooking the Hahnenbach valley between Idar-Oberstein and Rhaunen.
Neighbouring municipalities
Wickenrodt borders in the north on the municipality of Bollenbach, in the northeast on the municipality of Bundenbach, in the east on the municipality of Sonnschied, in the south on the municipality of Niederhosenbach, in the southwest on the municipalities of Breitenthal and Oberhosenbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Sulzbach. Wickenrodt also meets the municipality of Griebelschied at a single point in the southeast.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
Mayor
Wickenrodt's mayor is Michael Adam.[4]
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per bend vert a stylized W and in base an adze in bend argent, and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.
