Hochstetten-Dhaun

Hochstetten-Dhaun
Schloss Dhaun, view from the Kellenbach valley
Coat of arms
Hochstetten-Dhaun
Location of Hochstetten-Dhaun within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°48′3″N 7°30′19″E / 49.80083°N 7.50528°E / 49.80083; 7.50528Coordinates: 49°48′3″N 7°30′19″E / 49.80083°N 7.50528°E / 49.80083; 7.50528
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Kirn-Land
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Barrois
Area
• Total	12.61 km2 (4.87 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,622
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55606
Dialling codes	06752
Vehicle registration	KH

Hochstetten-Dhaun is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirn-Land, whose seat is in the town of Kirn, although this lies outside the Verbandsgemeinde. Hochstetten-Dhaun is a state-recognized recreational community.

Hochstetten-Dhaun lies in the Nahe valley between the Hunsrück to the north and the Palatinate to the south. By both land area and population, Hochstetten-Dhaun is the second biggest Ortsgemeinde in Kirn-Land.

Clockwise from the north, Hochstetten-Dhaun’s neighbours are the municipalities of Brauweiler, Simmertal, Merxheim and Meckenbach, the town of Kirn and the municipalities of Oberhausen bei Kirn and Heinzenberg, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Hochstetten-Dhaun’s Ortsteile are Hochstetten (north of the Nahe) with the outlying hamlets and homesteads of Karlshof, St. Johannisberg, Waldeck and Waldhof (the Karlshof is one of the last of the old Dhaun estates on the heights north of the Nahe), Hochstädten (south of the Nahe), which until the late 18th century formed a single unit together with Hochstetten (the names are pronounced alike) and Schloss Dhaun, a castle and a hamlet, with the outlying homestead of Heinzenberger Gesellschaftsmühle.