Leisel

Coat of arms

Leisel

Location of Leisel within Birkenfeld district

Coordinates: 49°43′11″N 7°12′14″E / 49.71972°N 7.20389°ECoordinates: 49°43′11″N 7°12′14″E / 49.71972°N 7.20389°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Wolfgang Schüßler

Area

• Total

8.82 km² (3.41 sq mi)

Elevation

420 m (1,380 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

543

• Density

62/km² (160/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55767

06787

BIR

Website

www.leisel.de

Leisel 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 Leiselbach at the Idar Forest in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 65% wooded.

Leisel borders in the northeast on the municipality of Siesbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Wilzenberg-Hußweiler and in the southwest on the municipality of Schwollen.

In 1180, Leisel had its first documentary mention as Lucei in a document dealing with legal relationships in the Archbishopric of Trier, under whose sovereignty Leisel lay at that time. In 1328, Archbishop of Trier Baldwin acknowledged the Sponheim lordship over the Birkenfelder Land (the country around Birkenfeld). The countercompony base (that is, with two rows of squares of alternating tinctures) in the municipality’s coat of arms recalls this time, for the Counts of Sponheim bore arms that were chequy (completely covered with squares of alternating tinctures).

With regard to administration, Leisel belonged to the Pflege (literally “care”, but actually a local geopolitical unit) of Brombach. Together with other nearby places it formed a unified administrative region, both in ecclesiastical and secular matters. Together with the Pflege of Birkenfeld, this formed the Sponheim Amt of Birkenfeld, whose northeast border was for centuries the Siesbach.

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