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113: 1085:. It was his first visit to Germany. His flight took him through the Lordship of Grumbach in 1714, where he was received by the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves and taken to the Schönbornerhof. There he was wined and dined in kingly fashion. At the table, the Count's young son was supposed to wait on this high-ranking guest. Once, when the boy began to weep bitterly, the king asked why, and learnt that his young waiter was merely very hungry. Laughing, StanisƂaw saw to it that the child's hunger was quickly banished. Among LeszczyƄski's entourage was his daughter 81: 381: 2634: 1004:, not far from the Lemberg (mountain). This had been destroyed in 1456. Its dwellers now had to make do with humbler lodgings. Thus it was thought that the Order's offer to Jakob von Montfort might come in handy as a place to build a new home for himself and his family for the future. It seemed like an ideal arrangement. The Montforts thus acquired the estate, but were not very good at keeping up on the payments. They could come up with neither the asking price of 200 617:. The document whereby this arrangement was laid out referred to the village's inhabitants as the “poor people of Grumbach”. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz – his wife had inherited the county upon her father Friedrich III's death in 1444, but not his comital title – and by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of ZweibrĂŒcken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as whose comital residence he chose the town of 45: 450:. The Schönbornerhof about one kilometre away and with an excellent view over the North Palatine Uplands lies almost 400 m above sea level. The Kellertsberg, a mountain near the village, reaches a height of 450 m. The municipal area measures 1 086 ha, of which roughly 130 ha is wooded. These figures take into account the large parcel of land transferred to the municipality from the Baumholder troop drilling ground. 65: 120: 88: 1105:. Besides farmers, there were also farmhands, forestry workers and a few craftsmen. There were hardly any other jobs to be had. Even today, the municipal area is under agricultural use. Nevertheless, a great number of people in Homberg need to seek work outside the village. As early as 1955, out of 56 members of the workforce, 46 held jobs outside the village. 1049:, it also time and again served the Counts of Grumbach as a temporary lodging and hunting seat. In 1691, Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Leopold Phillip Wuilhelm built a small hunting lodge on the estate, which saw avid use. This earned a certain historical importance after, in 1709, things went greatly awry for 977:
Grumbach, a courtier of the Waldgraves of Dhaun. Together with his holding of Sulzbach, Berthold bequeathed the estate to his sons, Berthold, Hartrade and Johannes, who were Knights-Hospitaller priests of the Holy House of the Hospital of Ulm. Thus did the estate, with its extensive lands – almost 500
1318:” (originally “homestead”), cannot be dated very accurately by this fact alone, as they arose over a very long timespan. The name's original meaning, however, could have been something like “Homestead/Hamlet/Farm at an oak forest”. Most likely, however, it is a case of a village with the name element 995:
the Schönbornerhof to courtiers, whose names are not recorded. Until the monastery building was completed in the neighbouring village, the estate was for a few years the seat of the provostry. Over time, the Knights’ interest in the estate dwindled and they set about selling it. In 1517, the Order of
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and the Steinalp (another river). The 1319 document dealt with a dispute between the two Waldgravial sidelines of Kyrburg and Dhaun-Grumbach. About 1344, in his own documents, the name “Friedrich von Hoenberg” appeared. He was obviously a nobleman who came from Homberg, but nothing else about him has
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for themselves. The general level of learning would thereby be raised. School attendance was at first voluntary. Regular lessons were likely only introduced in the earlier half of the 18th century. Only in 1909 did Homberg get its own schoolhouse with a teacher's dwelling. Until then, schoolchildren
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at the time, that sealed the village's fate. All that is found on its former site now is cropland, but it does bear the cadastral name Kesweiler or KĂ€sweiler, thus commemorating the old village. Every so often, stones and bits of wall are supposedly still found. It is likely that this village was
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refers to the spring or the cabin might be a pointless question, for it is known that springs and wells were often housed in a little hut to keep the water clean. In the historical record, on the other hand, it is known that until 1290, the Schönbornerhof belonged to the knight Sir Berthold von
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had evacuated it in 1933 for military purposes – was annexed to Homberg with effect from 1 January 1994. This acquisition had been part of the Baumholder troop drilling ground. It increased Homberg's land area by about 700 ha – it had been only 300 ha or so before the land transfer.
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on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves. The charges on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side likewise refer to the former lords; the house is their old hunting lodge on the
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Compare maps: old municipal boundary map: Walther Hubatsch (publisher): Grundriß zur deutschen Verwaltungsgeschichte 1815-1945, Band 7, Marburg/Lahn 1978, Karten-Anlage 8; new municipal boundary map: Landesvermessungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz (publisher): Übersichtskarte mit
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area, gathered up funds to help the Hombergers make a new beginning. In the course of reconstruction, water channels were dug and a municipal centre was built. At that time, the foremost things in villagers’ lives were land and livestock. Even a century later, Homberg was still mainly
1017:. One, though, had the same problem as the Montforts; so actually, the Order ended up keeping one half of the Schönbornerhof while the townsman who could pay his half of the selling price came into ownership of the other half. In 1556, the Order sold its half to the lordship in 498:
The village of Homberg lies on a through road running from northeast to southwest, and is most thickly concentrated near two intersections roughly in the village centre. One intersection leads to a country path while the other is a road leading to the neighbouring village of
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operations has shrunk greatly, although farmland has remained largely preserved. Thus, the operations that were still in business became bigger. Farming shifted from a primary income earner to a secondary one. In more recent years, though, some farms have been given up.
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have wrought significant differences in today's village. The number of full-time farmers has shrunk, although there are still some who farm as a secondary occupation. Most of the village's workforce now works at craft industries. Under Rhineland-Palatinate's
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considerably older than Homberg itself. The Mr. Karsch mentioned above took the view that KĂ€sweiler had arisen as long ago as pre-Germanic times. It is however questionable as to whether this opinion is tenable. Nevertheless, the monosyllabic prefix
564:, which itself had arisen from the Nahegau. As far as is now known, Homberg had its first documentary mention in 1319. In the document in question, an arbitrator confirmed that Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg had to forgo all his claims to rights to 670:. There, bit by bit, all the money wandered into the innkeeper's pockets. However, it had escaped the mayor's notice that a few villagers had not partaken. Those who had been left out were greatly angered and brought the matter before the court in 503:. The village's appearance is still largely characterized by old farmhouses. All together there is very little in the way of new building activity. The graveyard lies at the village's western entrance on the north side of the road. 1600:, a few of whose classes were for a while housed at the Offenbach schoolhouse. The old Homburg schoolhouse, meanwhile, passed into private ownership. There were formerly opportunities to take commercial classes in Offenbach and 1008:
nor the yearly interest of 10 guilders payable until such time as the sale was completed, and thus had to leave the estate. The estate thus passed back to the Order of Saint John and was then pledged to two townsmen, one from
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troops. Not one house was left standing, but the Hombergers built their village anew. Homberg was a rich farming village where there was also fruitgrowing. In 1746, according to a court protocol, Phillip Mensch was the
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the communal fruit before the recommended time. It was a pleasant, warm autumn day, the auction went quite well and good prices were paid. Afterwards, the mayor invited the villagers to come and drink at the village
913:(roughly “State Law For Dissolving the Regional Estate of Baumholder and Annexing It to Municipalities”) on 2 November 1993 (GVBl. S. 518), the former municipal area of the long vanished village of Ilgesheim – the 870:). In 1859, there was a devastating fire that burnt 47 buildings in Homberg down. The people saved themselves, but there was much loss of life among the livestock. The damage was estimated at 35,000 382: 446:, roughly 7 km from Lauterecken. The village itself stretches along a high hollow that opens towards the east into the Grumbach valley at an elevation of some 320 m above 1021:, and fifty years later, in 1606, the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Grumbach managed to acquire the other half through exchange. Beginning in 1614, the Counts put the estate into 956:
once lay a wounded warrior whose searing wounds and great thirst led him to believe that he would surely die. There, however, he heard running water, and dragged himself to the
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The Schönbornerhof, an historic farm in Homberg, had its first documentary mention in 1290, while Homberg itself was first noted in 1319. The village belonged to the
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of Grumbach was dissolved and in 1969, Homberg was transferred, this time to the Kusel district, in which it remains today. In 1972, it passed to the newly founded
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In schrÀglinks geteiltem Schild vorne einen roten, blaubewehrten und -gezungten Löwen in Gold, hinten in schwarz ein silbernes Haus unter einem silbernen Jagdhorn.
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finds have been made within Homberg's own limits to confirm this, unless the vanished village of KĂ€sweiler is prehistoric, an assumption that is far from certain.
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language be described thus: Per bend sinister Or a lion rampant sinister gules armed and langued azure and sable a house under a bugle-horn both argent.
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Saint John wanted to sell the Schönbornerhof to Jakob von Montfort, whose family, the robber-knight House of Montfort, had held as its seat the knightly
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the following year. On 19 October 1814, inhabitants from all villages in the local area turned out and had a freedom celebration on the heights between
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having the same meaning as in English, in the sense of “left over”. Homberg belonged to this district until 1937, when it was transferred to the
147: 661:, a mayor responsible for a number of villages. In this year, the otherwise trustworthy Mensch got himself into quite a bit of trouble when he 2103: 987:’s ownership and become their local seat. Later, the Knights built themselves a new house for the Order in Sulzbach, the fittingly named 1593:. About 1980, there were further changes. Primary school pupils were then taught in Sankt Julian while Hauptschule students went to the 112: 1728: 960:. He drank from it and his wounds healed. His joy and thanks for this convinced him to stay, build a cabin and name the place 1443:) in the German blazon – refers to their leisure pursuit. The arms have been borne since 1964 when they were approved by the 1277:. The village, however, had vanished even before 1500. Nothing is known about why this happened, but it could have been the 1101:
The village has a rural structure to this day. Until a few decades ago, most of the villagers earned their livelihoods in
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Though Homberg had always been a place where the people earned their livelihoods at farming, structural changes after the
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house; one-floor stone block building, open bell frame, possibly from the mid 19th century, wooden gate from the 1920s
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historical development that Homberg experienced closely matches that experienced by neighbouring villages such as
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denominations were tolerated, but they did not earn any special significance. To this day, most inhabitants are
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stipulated, among other things, that 26 of the Sankt Wendel district’s 94 municipalities had to be ceded to the
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salutes and bellringing from Herren-Sulzbach filled the air with the merry mood. In 1816, Homberg passed to the
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rights in their zone of occupation, and there were thus no longer any lordly holdings. During this time and the
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consort. Even in his old age, the king is said to have remembered his reception at the Schönbornerhof fondly.
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granted reconstruction aid in the amount of 1,000 Thaler, and all neighbouring villages, and even some in the
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parish of Herren-Sulzbach was founded in 1556. Homberg has belonged ever since to this parish. Until the
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can also be found in the Alemannic languages, meaning “oaken mast”. Places with the name element
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Two clubs characterize Homberg's social life, the men's singing club, founded in 1909 and the
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for “oak”, whether of Celtic or Germanic origin, would still have been known in the region.
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Landesgesetz ĂŒber die Auflösung des Gutsbezirks Baumholder und seine kommunale Neugliederung
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Within what are now Homberg's limits once lay the village of KĂ€sweiler, named in 1319 as
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Beginning in 1477, Homberg belonged to the lordship of Grumbach until the time of the
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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.
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The following table shows population development over the centuries for Homberg:
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declared the Schönbornerhof national property, and as early as 1795, they had it
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Homberg was named in documents from 1319 and 1324, and even as late as 1448, as
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on the Heath”), which comprised, roughly, lands in a triangle bounded by the
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and Rhinegraves, bearing witness to which is the lion in the municipality's
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are the B270 (1.5 km away) and the B420 (4 km away). The nearest
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area and to which Homberg, too, belonged. It would have lain within the
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Also belonging to Homberg is the outlying homestead of Schönbornerhof.
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cropped up, but it has been Homberg since 1650. However, in the 1797
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Schönbornerhof, and the bugle-horn – described as a “hunting horn” (
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troop drilling ground and in the northwest on the municipality of
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The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by
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passed down through a report by a Mr. Karsch, on the site of the
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Old customs, which were formerly common in all villages in the
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from 1754 recalls this time. The French were driven out of the
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changed often. Even if the Schönbornerhof had been put into
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was less kind, for in 1677, Homberg was burnt right down by
1711:, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021. 1206:. The village's name sprang originally from a field name, 1567:
had had to attend classes in the neighbouring village of
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into the Waldgravial-Rhinegravial House of Grumbach, the
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region, are hardly ever observed in the village today.
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of Homberg. Old documents up until 1605 speak of the
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district also called Birkenfeld. This lay within the
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Homberg borders in the north on the municipality of
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Later, the hub shifted to the village of 926:On the road leading out of Homberg towards 713:era that followed, Homberg belonged to the 641:, Homberg was mostly spared the woe of the 2118: 2104: 1450: 1073:, StanisƂaw had to flee Poland. By way of 485: 1583:primary school and older students to the 1096: 674:. For this oversight, Phillip Mensch was 621:: the County Palatine – later Duchy – of 478:. Homberg also meets the municipality of 1493:Fire Brigade Festival (every other year) 560:, and then thereafter until 1263 to the 516:The greater area was already settled in 493: 1729:Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz 1704: 1702: 1675:and thus some 20 km away. Serving 1407:Homberg's mayor is Marc-Steffen Risch. 1190:). This stems from the formation of an 1165: 783:, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of 605:, namely Friedrich III, whose daughter 2657:Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate 2649: 593:come to light. The villages under the 466:, in the south on the municipality of 2099: 1530: 1237:. The name makes clear a link with a 921: 839:of Koblenz in the then newly founded 568:and a series of other places in the “ 462:, in the east on the municipality of 374: 1699: 1490:Singers’ Festival (every other year) 1464:’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: 1390: 1314:, which as a standalone word means “ 1260: 482:at a single point in the northeast. 252:10.89 km (4.20 sq mi) 1575:was dissolved in 1968. Thereafter, 13: 2632: 1709:Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Kusel 1338:Within the region governed by the 1186:(or, according to another source, 14: 2673: 2081: 1866:Gemeindegrenzen Ausgabe B, EAN / 1476: 1322:founded, as so many were, in the 983:(or 160 ha) – pass into the 1916:Homberg’s population development 1499:Festival with church service on 572:” (“Court on the Heights”). The 438:Homberg lies at the edge of the 134:Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate 118: 111: 86: 79: 63: 43: 2088:Municipality’s official webpage 2066: 2055: 2044: 2033: 2022: 1997: 1986: 1975: 1964: 1953: 1942: 1931: 1920: 1909: 1898: 1887: 1876: 1859: 1834: 1823: 1812: 1410: 1362:. With the introduction of the 717:(“Mayoralty”) of Grumbach, the 681: 628: 119: 87: 1801: 1790: 1779: 1768: 1757: 1746: 1735: 1714: 1624:are available in Lauterecken, 1346:whose hub was a church in the 835:, Homberg lay at first in the 775:of Grumbach), a newly created 527: 1: 1692: 1468:Near Hauptstraße 20 – former 1249:, although the usual form is 887:. In 1958, there were still: 2126:Towns and municipalities in 1640:Homberg can be reached over 1635: 1579:pupils at first went to the 1552:As in other villages in the 1547: 1455: 1137: 1057:, but when his protĂ©gĂ© King 511: 428: 7: 2005:"Regular events in Homberg" 1385: 1333: 1081:, which in 1681 had become 991:(“House at Sulzbach”), and 767:Principality of Lichtenberg 692:French Revolutionary troops 454:Neighbouring municipalities 433: 10: 2678: 1526:Economy and infrastructure 1487:on the last Sunday in July 1447:Ministry of the Interior. 1194:, “”, which yielded first 506: 260:340 m (1,120 ft) 2630: 2289:Haschbach am Remigiusberg 2134: 1415:The German blazon reads: 1031:Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz 578:Hochgericht auf der Heide 355: 345: 335: 323: 302: 285: 277: 269: 264: 256: 248: 243: 229: 224: 212: 200: 188: 178: 143: 73: 57: 39: 30: 21: 2554:Rutsweiler an der Lauter 2324:Herschweiler-Pettersheim 1894:Schönbornerhof’s history 1808:Schönbornerhof’s history 1513: 1402: 1245:still means “spring” in 2444:Neunkirchen am Potzberg 1522:club, founded in 1922. 1451:Culture and sightseeing 1214:this would be rendered 1174:. About 1500, the form 486:Constituent communities 2638: 1646:373, which leads from 1417: 1352:Archbishopric of Mainz 1097:Population development 1079:Palatinate-ZweibrĂŒcken 1041:). The holders of the 1029:” still exists at the 962:zuo dem schönen brunne 831:of Koblenz. After the 725:of Birkenfeld and the 623:Palatinate-ZweibrĂŒcken 615:Count Palatine Stephan 440:North Palatine Uplands 219:Lauterecken-Wolfstein 2636: 2569:Schönenberg-KĂŒbelberg 2479:Oberweiler-Tiefenbach 1753:Municipality’s layout 1689:some 7 km away. 1281:, which was ravaging 1059:Charles XII of Sweden 1051:StanisƂaw LeszczyƄski 972:. Whether the ending 785:Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 494:Municipality’s layout 470:, in the west on the 423:Lauterecken-Wolfstein 372:German pronunciation: 304: â€ą Summer ( 281:19/km (48/sq mi) 2209:Dennweiler-Frohnbach 1927:Municipality’s names 1842:""Ortsbeschreibung"" 1462:Rhineland-Palatinate 1445:Rhineland-Palatinate 1340:Gericht auf der Höhe 1302:word for that tree, 1273:) and about 1500 as 1166:Municipality’s names 845:Rhineland-Palatinate 797:Treaty of Versailles 781:Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 749:German lands on the 595:Gericht auf der Höhe 574:Gericht auf der Höhe 570:Gericht auf der Höhe 418:. It belongs to the 412:Rhineland-Palatinate 360:www.hombergonline.de 347:Vehicle registration 278: â€ą Density 195:Rhineland-Palatinate 163:49.65139°N 7.51611°E 1423:The municipality's 1013:and the other from 985:Knights Hospitaller 946:Order of Saint John 816:Birkenfeld district 159: /  102:Show map of Germany 2639: 2549:Rutsweiler am Glan 2489:Offenbach-Hundheim 2384:Kreimbach-Kaulbach 2051:Economic structure 1618:vocational schools 1531:Economic structure 1247:Modern High German 1212:Modern High German 1208:ze dem hohen berge 1180:SchmittÂŽsche Karte 922:The Schönbornerhof 761:and Homberg while 659:ReihebĂŒrgermeister 376:[ˈhɔmbɛʁk] 270: â€ą Total 249: â€ą Total 239:Marc-Steffen Risch 2644: 2643: 2579:Steinbach am Glan 2474:Oberweiler im Tal 2454:Niederstaufenbach 2434:Nanzdietschweiler 1938:Vanished villages 1905:Homberg’s history 1830:Homberg’s history 1786:Homberg’s history 1427:might in English 1391:Municipal council 1372:Thirty Years' War 1344:Early Middle Ages 1326:. Then, the term 1324:Early Middle Ages 1290:goes back to the 1261:Vanished villages 1163: 1162: 1053:. He was king of 1000:at Montfort near 868:Regierungsbezirke 864:Rheinhessen-Pfalz 721:of Grumbach, the 688:French Revolution 643:Thirty Years' War 635:French Revolution 603:Counts of Veldenz 518:prehistoric times 365: 364: 168:49.65139; 7.51611 2669: 2662:Kusel (district) 2269:Glan-MĂŒnchweiler 2128:Kusel (district) 2120: 2113: 2106: 2097: 2096: 2092: 2075: 2070: 2064: 2059: 2053: 2048: 2042: 2037: 2031: 2026: 2020: 2019: 2017: 2016: 2007:. Archived from 2001: 1995: 1990: 1984: 1979: 1973: 1968: 1962: 1957: 1951: 1946: 1940: 1935: 1929: 1924: 1918: 1913: 1907: 1902: 1896: 1891: 1885: 1880: 1874: 1863: 1857: 1856: 1854: 1853: 1844:. 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Homberg is located in Germany
Homberg is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
49°39â€Č5″N 7°30â€Č58″E / 49.65139°N 7.51611°E / 49.65139; 7.51611
Germany
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Rhineland-Palatinate
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Kusel
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Lauterecken-Wolfstein
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Kusel

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