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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Bernkastel-Wittlich

Postal codes
  
54426

Area
  
7.55 km²

Population
  
497 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
06504

State
  
Rhineland-Palatinate

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Dialling codes
  
06504

Local time
  
Saturday 6:18 PM

Postal code
  
54426

Municipal assoc.
  
Thalfang am Erbeskopf

Berglicht

Weather
  
5°C, Wind SW at 21 km/h, 89% Humidity

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Berglicht is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Map of 54426 Berglicht, Germany

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Location

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Thalfang am Erbeskopf, whose seat is in the municipality of Thalfang.

History

In 1228, Berglicht had its first documentary mention. Originally, the municipality was two centres named Berg (on the Hangrücken) and Licht (on the Lichterbach). The church in Berg held its own jurisdiction and was mother church to many parishes in what is today the Deaconry of Morbach. An end was put to the centuries-long lordship of the Counts of Hunolstein about 1800 by the French Revolution. After French rule ended, the municipality passed to the Kingdom of Prussia. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Until municipal administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969, the municipality belonged to the district of Bernkastel, whose seat was at Bernkastel-Kues.

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent a fess enhanced and a pale to dexter gules, in base sinister a heart voided and within, a cross, the top arm joined to the cusp of the heart, sable, all within a bordure vert.

References

Berglicht Wikipedia