HottenbachHottenbach 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. The municipality lies on the Ebesbach in the Hunsrück southeast of the Idar Forest.
RhaunenRhaunen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde Rhaunen. The municipality lies at the Idar Forest in the Hunsrück in a sprawling, well watered hollow. The hollow separates the Idar Forest massif from the Soonwald massif. Within the village itself, the Lingenbach empties into the Rhaunelbach, which itself, along with the Näßbach, the Macherbach and the Büdenbach, empties into the Idarbach.
Arrondissement de BirkenfeldBirkenfeld (ˈbɪʁkŋ̍fɛlt) is a district (Landkreis) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is the town of Birkenfeld. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Sankt Wendel (Saarland), Trier-Saarburg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bad Kreuznach and Kusel. In the early nineteenth century, the Nahe River was the boundary between two tiny principalities: Birkenfeld, west of the Nahe; and Lichtenberg, east of it.
HunsrückLe Hunsrück est un massif montagneux de la Rhénanie-Palatinat et de la Sarre (Allemagne) formant le rebord méridional du massif schisteux rhénan. Il est situé entre la Moselle au nord-ouest, le Rhin au nord-est, la Nahe au sud-est et la Sarre au sud. Le Hunsrück est le prolongement de l'Eifel par-delà la Moselle (rive droite), ainsi que le prolongement du Taunus par-delà le Rhin (rive gauche). Le sommet le plus élevé est l’Erbeskopf (816 mètres) dans l’.
