Börfink

Börfink
Coat of arms
Börfink
Location of Börfink within Birkenfeld district
Coordinates: 49°41′19.45″N 7°4′50.2″E / 49.6887361°N 7.080611°E / 49.6887361; 7.080611Coordinates: 49°41′19.45″N 7°4′50.2″E / 49.6887361°N 7.080611°E / 49.6887361; 7.080611
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Birkenfeld
Municipal assoc.	Birkenfeld
Government
• Mayor	Monika Schabert
Area
• Total	8.22 km2 (3.17 sq mi)
Elevation	515 m (1,690 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	164
• Density	20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54422
Dialling codes	06782
Vehicle registration	BIR
Website	www.gemeinde-boerfink.de

Börfink 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 of Birkenfeld, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies on the Traunbach near the 816 m-high Erbeskopf in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald (forest) in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 78.8% wooded.

Börfink borders in the southeast on Abentheuer and in the southwest on Muhl, an outlying centre of Neuhütten.

Also belonging to Börfink are the outlying homesteads of Einschiederhof, Forellenhof Trauntal and Thranenweier.

Yearly precipitation in Börfink amounts to 1 133 mm, which is very high, falling into the highest tenth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 91% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is July. The most rainfall comes in December. In that month, precipitation is 1.5 times what it is in July. Precipitation varies markedly. Only at 23% of the weather stations are higher seasonal swings recorded.

In the Middle Ages, Börfink belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, while in Prussian times it belonged to the Trier district.