Lauterecken

Lauterecken
Lauterecken
Town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Lauterecken within Kusel district
	Lauterecken Lauterecken
	Coordinates: 49°38′58″N 7°35′31″E / 49.64944°N 7.59194°E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Kusel
Municipal assoc.	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Isabel Steinhauer-Theis (CDU)
Area
• Total	8.91 km2 (3.44 sq mi)
Elevation	169 m (554 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,996
• Density	220/km2 (580/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	67742
Dialling codes	06382
Vehicle registration	KUS
Website	www.lauterecken.de

Lauterecken (pronunciation^ⓘ) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein, to which it also belongs. Lauterecken bears the nickname Veldenzstadt, after the comital family that once held sway here. It is also a state-recognized tourism resort town, and in terms of state planning is laid out as a lower centre.^[3]

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Kusel, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
^ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten

[mayor-1] Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Kusel, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.

[2] "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

[infothek-3] Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten

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