| Oberhosenbach | |
| Image Coa: | OberhosenbachWappen.svg |
| Coordinates: | 49.8144°N 7.3314°W |
| Image Plan: | Oberhosenbach in BIR.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Birkenfeld |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Herrstein-Rhaunen |
| Elevation: | 430 |
| Area: | 4.14 |
| Postal Code: | 55758 |
| Area Code: | 06785 |
| Licence: | BIR |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 34 064 |
| Mayor: | Kirsten Beetz[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Oberhosenbach 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 Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in Herrstein.
The municipality lies roughly 18 km north of Idar-Oberstein near the Deutsche Edelsteinstraße (“German Gem Road”) and the Hunsrück Schiefer- und Burgenstraße (“Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road”). Half the municipal area is wooded.
In 1318, Oberhosenbach had its first documentary mention as Volmarshusenbach.
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.[2]
Oberhosenbach's mayor is Kirsten Beetz, and her deputies are Reinhold Noll and Gabriele Wolter.[3]
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per bend vert a cross Latin Or and Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure.
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[4]
Running south of the municipality is Bundesstraße 41. Serving nearby Fischbach is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).