Nohen | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Nohen within Birkenfeld district
| |
 Location of Nohen | |
  Nohen  Nohen | |
| Coordinates:49°38′28″N7°14′36″E / 49.64111°N 7.24333°E /49.64111; 7.24333 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Birkenfeld |
| Municipal assoc. | Birkenfeld |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Sascha Loch[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 7.50 km2 (2.90 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 458 m (1,503 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 328 |
| • Density | 43.7/km2 (113/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55767 |
| Dialling codes | 06789 |
| Vehicle registration | BIR |
Nohen is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theBirkenfelddistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Birkenfeld, whose seat is in thelike-named town.
The municipality lies at the mouth of the Röhmbach, where it empties into theNahe.
Nohen borders in the north on the municipality ofKronweiler, in the east on the municipality ofReichenbach, in the south on the municipality ofHeimbach and in the west on the municipality ofRimsberg.
Nohen's beginnings can be traced back to a time when the location was favourable to transportation because it lay on one of the fewfords 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. ThisBronzestraße (“Bronze Road”) from theGlan by way of Nohen to theMoselle was expanded inRoman times into a crosslink between theMainz-Trier and Mainz-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, aSwedish-French army under DukeBernard of Saxe-Weimar’s leadership went slogging by across the river after their defeat atNördlingen in theThirty Years' War on their retreat by way ofBirkenfeld toWallerfangen, even as they were being pursued by the far superior, victoriousImperial army underCount Gallas.
Until the late 18th century, Nohen belonged to the “Hinder”County of Sponheim.
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
Nohen's mayor is Sascha Loch.[1]
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'sarms might in Englishheraldic 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.
Thecharges 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, which bore arms chequy gules and argent. Nohen was in theOberamt of Birkenfeld.
The arms have been borne since 20 June 1963.[4]
The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[5]
To the west runsBundesstraße 41, and to the south, theAutobahnA 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier). Nohen also has astation on theNahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).
