sentences:  The municipality lies in the Western Palatinate on the river Glan’s left bank, roughly 2 km up the Schwinzbach, which empties into the Glan at the biggest valley cut on the reach of the Glan between Niederalben and Meisenheim.Here, the valley broadens out, and the mountain spur being formed by the mouth of the Hundsgraben affords the site some solid ground.The settled centre is found exclusively on the south slope at an elevation of 235 m above sea level.