# Uhler

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For the surname, see [Uhler (surname)](/source/Uhler_(surname)).

**Uhler** (ˈuːlɐ) 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 [Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis](/source/Rhein-Hunsr%C3%BCck-Kreis) ([district](/source/Districts_of_Germany)) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Kastellaun](/source/Kastellaun_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Kastellaun).

## Geography

### Location

The municipality lies on a ridge in the central [Hunsrück](/source/Hunsr%C3%BCck), roughly 12 km southeast of the [Moselle](/source/Moselle_(river)) at [Treis-Karden](/source/Treis-Karden), 3 km north of Kastellaun and 2 km north of the *Hunsrückhöhenstraße* ('Hunsrück Heights Road', a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on [Hermann Göring](/source/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring)’s orders). Also belonging to Uhler are the outlying homesteads of Gräfenmühle, Junkersmühle, Neumühle and Sulzmühle.[2]

## History

In 1200, Uhler had its first documentary mention in a document from [St. Maximin’s Abbey](/source/St._Maximin's_Abbey,_Trier) in [Trier](/source/Trier) as '**. Uhler belonged to the “Three-Lord Court” in [Beltheim](/source/Beltheim). Beginning in 1794, Uhler lay under [French](/source/France) rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of [Prussia](/source/Prussia) at the [Congress of Vienna](/source/Congress_of_Vienna). Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded [state](/source/States_of_Germany) of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate).**

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of six 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.[3]

### Mayor

Uhler's mayor is Hans-Herbert Laux.[4]

### Coat of arms

The municipality's [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might be described thus: Below a chief countercompony gules and argent, tierced in mantle, dexter argent an eagle's sinister wing sable, sinister argent a cross of the first and in base gules a bugle-horn of the second.

The arms refer to the lords of the "Three-Lord Court" in Beltheim. The [chief](/source/Chief_(heraldry)), namely the band at the top of the [escutcheon](/source/Escutcheon_(heraldry)) with the two-row chequered pattern (“countercompony”), stands for the [Counts of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim), the red cross on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side for the [Electorate of Trier](/source/Electorate_of_Trier) and the bugle-horn for the Lords of Braunshorn. The [charge](/source/Charge_(heraldry)) on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the eagle's wing, was an heraldic device borne by the knightly family of Keyser von "Owilre".[5]

## Culture and sightseeing

### Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[6]

- [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) church, Hauptstraße 25A – [aisleless church](/source/Aisleless_church), about 1700, conversion marked 1799, [Romanesque](/source/Romanesque_architecture) west tower, raised about 1800; whole complex of buildings with square
- Hauptstraße 26 – [timber-frame](/source/Timber_framing) *Quereinhaus* (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), half-hipped roof, 18th century
- Sulzmühle, northwest of Uhler – timber-frame house, clapboard, marked 1726; [waterwheel](/source/Waterwheel) and [millstones](/source/Millstone) preserved

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1400000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.

1. [Outlying homesteads](http://www.ort-uhler.de/Uhler/uhler.html)

1. [Municipal election results for Uhler](http://www.wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1400315300.html)

1. [Uhler’s mayor](http://www.wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/direkt_ab_2009/Ortsbuergermeister/1400000000.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719075028/http://www.wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/direkt_ab_2009/Ortsbuergermeister/1400000000.html) 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine

1. [Description and explanation of Uhler’s arms](http://www.ort-uhler.de/Uhler/uhler.html)

1. [Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-Hunsrück district](http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Rhein-Hunsrueck-Kreis.pdf)

## External links

- [Municipality's official webpage](http://www.ort-uhler.de/) (in German)

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