# Nohen
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{{Infobox German place
|name = Nohen
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|coordinates = {{coord|49|38|28|N|7|14|36|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Nohen in BIR.svg
|state = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district = Birkenfeld
|Verbandsgemeinde = Birkenfeld
|elevation = 458
|area = 7.50
|postal_code = 55767
|area_code = 06789
|licence = BIR
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 34 061
|mayor = Sascha Loch[[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1340000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Birkenfeld], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.]
|leader_term = 2019–24
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thumb|upright|Nohen Evangelical Church
'''Nohen''' 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 at the mouth of the Röhmbach, where it empties into the [Nahe](/source/Nahe_(Rhine)).
===Neighbouring municipalities===
Nohen borders in the north on the municipality of [Kronweiler](/source/Kronweiler), in the east on the municipality of [Reichenbach](/source/Reichenbach%2C_Birkenfeld), in the south on the municipality of [Heimbach](/source/Heimbach%2C_Rhineland-Palatinate) and in the west on the municipality of [Rimsberg](/source/Rimsberg).
==History==
Nohen's beginnings can be traced back to a time when the location was favourable to transportation because it lay on one of the few [ford](/source/ford_(crossing))s in the river Nahe's upper valley. As an indication of how important Nohen was geographically in those early days, one need only observe that it was then the only place along the river Nahe that was named after the river (the names “Nohen” and “Nahe” have a common heritage). It was here that one of the oldest north–south trade roads crossed the Nahe. This ''Bronzestraße'' (“Bronze Road”) from the [Glan](/source/Glan_(Nahe)) by way of Nohen to the [Moselle](/source/Moselle_(river)) was expanded in [Roman](/source/Ancient_Rome) times into a crosslink between the [Mainz](/source/Mainz)-[Trier](/source/Trier) and Mainz-[Metz](/source/Metz) roads.
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](/source/Sweden)-[French](/source/France) army under Duke [Bernard of Saxe-Weimar](/source/Bernard_of_Saxe-Weimar)’s leadership went slogging by across the river after their defeat at [Nördlingen](/source/Battle_of_N%C3%B6rdlingen_(1634)) in the [Thirty Years' War](/source/Thirty_Years'_War) on their retreat by way of [Birkenfeld](/source/Birkenfeld) to [Wallerfangen](/source/Wallerfangen), even as they were being pursued by the far superior, victorious [Imperial](/source/Holy_Roman_Empire) army under [Count Gallas](/source/Matthias_Gallas).
Until the late 18th century, Nohen belonged to the “Hinder” [County of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim).
==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.[[http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1340206100.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]]
===Mayor===
Nohen's mayor is Sascha Loch.[
===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](/source/Coat_of_arms) might in English [heraldic](/source/Heraldry) 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 [charge](/source/charge_(heraldry))s on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side refer to the bridge over the river Nahe (the wavy bend sinister), and the “chequy” field on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” [County of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim), which bore arms chequy gules and argent. Nohen was in the ''[Oberamt](/source/Amt_(country_subdivision))'' of Birkenfeld.
The arms have been borne since 20 June 1963.][[http://www.vgv-birkenfeld.de/gemeinden/nohen/nohen_start.htm Description and explanation of Nohen’s arms]]
==Culture and sightseeing==
===Buildings===
The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Birkenfeld.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district]]
* [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) Parish Church, Hauptstraße – stepped building complex; west tower from the 14th century, possibly older (belfry from 1953), quire and nave [Late Gothic](/source/Gothic_architecture) (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](/source/sandstone)-block structure over the Nahe
* Footbridge, south of the village – light, [rivet](/source/rivet)ted [iron](/source/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](/source/First_World_War), seven crosses, 1924, expanded in 1961
==Economy and infrastructure==
===Transport===
To the west runs ''[Bundesstraße](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe)'' 41, and to the south, the [Autobahn](/source/Autobahn) [A 62](/source/Bundesautobahn_62) ([Kaiserslautern](/source/Kaiserslautern)–[Trier](/source/Trier)). Nohen also has a [station](/source/railway_station) on the [Nahe Valley Railway](/source/Nahe_Valley_Railway) ([Bingen](/source/Bingen_am_Rhein)–[Saarbrücken](/source/Saarbr%C3%BCcken)).
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.vgv-birkenfeld.de/gemeinden/nohen/nohen_start.htm Nohen in the collective municipality’s webpages] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/hierzuland/-/id=100766/did=5971220/pv=video/nid=100766/1fp778w/ Brief portrait of Nohen with film] from [SWR Fernsehen](/source/SWR_Fernsehen)’s programme ''Hierzuland'' from 10 February 2010 {{in lang|de}}
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