The municipality lies on the upper reaches of the river Nahe in the southwestern Hunsrück. Within the municipality, the Schwollbach, which flows down from the Idar Forest empties into the Nahe.
Constituent communities
Also belonging to Kronweiler are the outlying centre of Hangelbösch and the homestead of Alte Schleife.[3]
History
In 1360, Kronweiler had its first documentary mention. It was part of the “Hinder” County of Sponheim.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[4]
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Unter rot-silbern geschachtem Schildhaupt in Blau ein silberner Wellenschrägbalken, darüber eine goldene Krone.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Under a chief countercompony gules and argent azure a bend wavy to dexter of the second above which a crown Or.
Am Bahnhof 3 – former railway station on the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn with ticket hall, stationmaster’s apartment and waiting room; two-floor yellow sandstone building with low additions, 1868, north addition 1910
Hauptstraße – two-arch bridge over the Schwollbach, 1880s
Railway bridges on the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn, east and southeast of the village – two three-arch, brick-framed sandstone block structures over the Nahe
Warriors’ memorial 1914/1918, on village western outskirts, on the “Hemelchen” – memorial to the twelve citizens from Kronweiler who fell in the First World War, sandstone stele with sculpture of a soldier in a grove of thujas, 1925