Hoppstädten-Weiersbach 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.
Hoppstadten seen from the train stop
David Einhorn
Birkenfeld is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants.
View of the town from the Burgberg
Schloss Birkenfeld, now a castle ruin (Matthäus Merian 17th century)
Birkenfeld in Oldenburg times, 1829
The "new" (Oldenburg) Schloss