Malborn is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Bernkastel-Wittlich Bernkastel-Wittlich (German language, German: ''Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich'') is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld ...

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Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...

. The municipal area covers 26.3 km², of which 18.4 km² is wooded. Malborn lies at the foot of the Steinkopf (683 m above

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), on which stood a lookout tower until 2018. Due to the lack of money, it was unfortunately demolished and has not been rebuilt to this day. Near Malborn rises the river

Prims The Prims is a 91 km long river in western Germany, right tributary of the Saar. It rises in the Hunsrück mountains, near the village Malborn. It flows generally south through the towns Nonnweiler, Wadern and Schmelz. It flows into the ...

, which is dammed up in the ''Primstalsperre'' (reservoir), and which empties into the

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near Dillingen. Malborn belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Thalfang am Erbeskopf, whose seat is in the municipality of Thalfang.

Constituent communities

Malborn's ''

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e'' are the main centre, also called Malborn, and the outlying centre of Thiergarten.

History

In 981, Malborn had its first documentary mention. As a result of the turmoil of the French Revolution, Malborn lay under French rule beginning about 1800. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of

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at the

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. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded

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Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by

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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Coat of arms

The municipality's

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might be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter vert three fir trees Or, sinister vert three ears of wheat banded in base and couped of the second, and the base chequy argent and gules, in a chief of the third a cross of the last. The

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s argent and gules (silver and red) recall two of the municipality's historical allegiances: the cross in the chief is a reference to the villages’ former allegiance to the

Electorate of Trier The Electorate of Trier ( or '; ) was an Hochstift, ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It was the temporal possession of the prince-archbishop of Trier (') wh ...

, while the “chequy” pattern refers to the Counts of Sponheim. The fields in the tinctures vert and Or (green and gold) refer to the municipality's historical livelihood in forestry, with its considerable woodlands symbolized on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side by the three stylized trees, and

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, symbolized on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side by the three ears of wheat.Description and explanation of Malborn’s arms

References

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