# Ellweiler

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{{Infobox German location
|name               = Ellweiler
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|image_coa            = Wappen Ellweiler.svg
|coordinates        = {{coord|49|36|54|N|7|08|40|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Ellweiler in BIR.svg
|state        = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district         = Birkenfeld
|Verbandsgemeinde  = Birkenfeld
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|area            = 7.46
|postal_code               = 55765
|area_code           = 06782
|licence               = BIR
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 34 024
|website           = [http://www.ellweiler.de/ www.ellweiler.de]
|mayor             = Christian Schöpfer<ref name=mayor>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1340000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Birkenfeld], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
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'''Ellweiler''' is an ''[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))'' – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a ''[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)'', a kind of collective municipality – in the [Birkenfeld](/source/Birkenfeld_(district)) [district](/source/Districts_of_Germany) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Birkenfeld](/source/Birkenfeld_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Birkenfeld).

==Geography==

===Location===
The municipality lies on the Traunbach in the ''Schwarzwälder Hochwald'' (forest) in the [Hunsrück](/source/Hunsr%C3%BCck) near the boundary with the [Saarland](/source/Saarland). The municipal area is 67.6% wooded.

===Neighbouring municipalities===
Ellweiler borders in the north on the municipality of [Dambach](/source/Dambach%2C_Germany), in the east on the municipality of [Hoppstädten-Weiersbach](/source/Hoppst%C3%A4dten-Weiersbach) (''[Ortsteil](/source/Ortsteil)'' of Neubrücke) and in the south on the municipality of [Nohfelden](/source/Nohfelden) in the Saarland.

===Constituent communities===
Also belonging to Ellweiler are the outlying homesteads of Haumbach, Neubrücker Mühle and Steinautal.<ref>[http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1132_201001_ur_G.pdf Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Amtliches Verzeichnis der Gemeinden und Gemeindeteile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125005812/http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1132_201001_ur_G.pdf |date=2015-11-25 }}, Seite 19 (PDF)</ref>

==History==
In the 12th century, Ellweiler had its first documentary mention. After first being an [Electoral-Trier](/source/Electorate_of_Trier) [fief](/source/fief), it passed in 1480 to the [Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken](/source/Palatine_Zweibr%C3%BCcken).

==Politics==

===Municipal council===
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.<ref>[http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1340202400.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]</ref>

===Mayor===
Ellweiler's mayor is Christian Schöpfer.<ref name=mayor/>

===Coat of arms===
The German blazon reads: ''{{lang|de|In geteiltem Schild oben eine rote Elchschaufel in Gold, unten ein rotbewehrter, -gezungter und -gekrönter wachsender goldener Löwe in Schwarz.}}''

The municipality's [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might in English [heraldic](/source/Heraldry) language be described thus: Per fess Or an elk's attire fesswise gules and sable issuant from base a demilion of the first armed, langued and crowned of the second.

The [elk's](/source/Moose) attire (that is, antler) is a [canting](/source/Canting_arms) [charge](/source/charge_(heraldry)) for the [German](/source/German_language) word ''Elch'', meaning “(Eurasian) elk” (that is to say, “moose”), which is taken to be the source of the first syllable in the village's name (the ''Weiler'' part means “[hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place))”, but there is no canting charge for that). The lion is drawn from the arms formerly borne by the [Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken](/source/Palatine_Zweibr%C3%BCcken).

The arms have been borne since 1963.

==Culture and sightseeing==

===Buildings===
The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:<ref>[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Birkenfeld.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district]</ref>
* [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) church, Bohnenhübel 2 – [aisleless church](/source/aisleless_church) with [ridge turret](/source/ridge_turret), 1776, architect Philipp Heinrich Hellermann, [Zweibrücken](/source/Zweibr%C3%BCcken); characterizes village’s appearance

==Economy and infrastructure==

===Transport===
To the southeast run ''[Bundesstraße](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe)'' 41 and the [Autobahn](/source/Autobahn) [A&nbsp;62](/source/Bundesautobahn_62) ([Kaiserslautern](/source/Kaiserslautern)–[Trier](/source/Trier)). Serving nearby [Neubrücke](/source/Hoppst%C3%A4dten-Weiersbach) is a [railway station](/source/railway_station) on the [Nahe Valley Railway](/source/Nahe_Valley_Railway) ([Bingen](/source/Bingen_am_Rhein)–[Saarbrücken](/source/Saarbr%C3%BCcken)).

===Uranium===
From 1958 to 1967, [uranium](/source/uranium) ore was mined by the ''Gewerkschaft Brunhilde'' (a [limited company](/source/limited_company)) in an open pit north of Ellweiler on the “Bühlskopf” ({{coord|49|37|04|N|07|08|49|E}} – position of abandoned Ellweiler uranium [open-pit mine](/source/Open-pit_mining)). Smaller uranium deposits were also found 650&nbsp;m northwest of the Bühlskopf on the northeast slope of “Der Stein” as well as in a couple of places near Nohfelden.<ref>H. Schmeltzer: ''Mineral-Fundstellen. Band 6: Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland'', Ch. Weise Verlag, München 1977</ref> Processing was done at the ''Uranerzaufbereitungsanlage Ellweiler'' (Ellweiler Uranium Ore Processing Facility).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.mineralienatlas.de/?l=7001 Ellweiler at mineralienatlas.de] {{in lang|de}}

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