title: Ruschberg
text: # Ruschberg
  
  Ruschberg 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 Baumholder, whose seat is in the like-named town.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Location
  
  Ruschberg lies on the Baumholder Bach southwest of the 563 m-high Feldberg. It also lies in the Westrich, an historic region that encompasses areas in both Germany and France.
  
  ### Neighbouring municipalities
  
  Ruschberg borders in the north on the Baumholder Troop Drilling Ground, in the east on the town of Baumholder, in the southeast on the municipality of Fohren-Linden, in the southwest on the municipality of Berglangenbach, in the west on the municipality of Heimbach and in the northwest on the municipality of Reichenbach.
  
  ### Constituent communities
  
  Also belonging to Ruschberg are the outlying homesteads of Clarashall (baryte mine), Haus Mohrenmühle, Im Inkelrech, Lauersmühle and Seibertsmühle.
  
  ## Politics
  
  ### Municipal council
  
  The council is made up of 12 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:
  
  | | SPD | CDU | Total |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2009 | 8 | 4 | 12 seats |
  | 2004 | 8 | 4 | 12 seats |
  
  ### Mayor
  
  Ruschberg's mayor is Alfred Heu.
  
  ### Coat of arms
  
  The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess, argent issuant from the line of partition a demilion azure armed and langued gules, and azure a hammer and pick per saltire of the first surmounted by an ear of wheat between two ears of rye all couped, palewise and Or.
  
  ## Culture and sightseeing
  
  ### Clubs
  
  * Catholic women's club
  * Eschelbacher Natur- und Angelfreunde (friends of nature and angling)
  * Evangelische Frauenhilfe (Evangelical women's aid)
  * Fußballclub 1921 (football)
  * Mixed choir
  * Ruschberg “Germania” music club
  * Shooting club
  * Sport club
  * VdK local chapter (service club)
  * Volunteer fire brigade
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  ### Public institutions
  
  * Evangelical church, parish of Baumholder
  * Catholic church, parish of Baumholder
  * Kindergarten Ruschberg
  * Ruschberg primary school
  * Ruschberg youth club
  * Bürgerhaus Ruschberg (community centre)
  
  ### Transport
  
  Running a few kilometres south of the municipality is the Autobahn A 62 (Kaiserslautern–Trier). Serving nearby Heimbach is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken). There has been no railway station in Ruschberg itself since the 1981 when the Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder Railway ceased passenger operations.
  
  