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{{Infobox German location
|image_coa            = DEU Arbach COA.svg
|image_photo = ArbachEifel1.jpg
|coordinates       = {{coord|50|17|03|N|7|2|54|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Arbach in DAU.svg
|state        = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district         = Vulkaneifel
|Verbandsgemeinde  = Kelberg
|elevation              = 400
|area            = 4.40
|postal_code               = 56769
|area_code           = 02657
|licence               = DAU
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 2 33 201
|mayor             = Uwe Schöne<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/2330000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Vulkaneifel], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
}}
'''Arbach''' is an {{lang|de|[[Ortsgemeinde (Germany)|Ortsgemeinde]]}} – a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] belonging to a {{lang|de|[[Verbandsgemeinde]]}}, a kind of collective municipality – in the [[Vulkaneifel]] [[Districts of Germany|district]] in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]]. It belongs to the [[Kelberg (Verbandsgemeinde)|''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kelberg]], whose seat is in the [[Kelberg|like-named municipality]].

== Geography ==

The municipality lies in the [[Vulkan Eifel|Vulkaneifel]], a part of the [[Eifel]] known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

== History ==
In 1336, Arbach had its first documentary mention as ''Arrebarre'' or ''Arrebach'', in which the prefix ''Arre'' – cognate with the [[English language|English]] “ear” [[Ear (botany)|in the same meaning]] – referred to ears of cereal grains (this is ''Ähre'' in [[German language|Modern High German]]).

== Politics ==

=== Municipal council ===
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by [[Plurality voting system|majority vote]] at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

=== Coat of arms ===
The German blazon reads: ''In Gold, durch einen schrägrechten blauen Wellenbalken geteilt, vorn drei schwarze Getreidehalme, hinten ein rotes durchgehendes Kreuz''.

The municipality’s [[Coat of arms|arms]] might in English [[Heraldry|heraldic]] language be described thus: Or a bend wavy azure between three wheat stalks, the one in dexter bent to dexter below the ear and the one in sinister bent to sinister at the ear sable, and a cross gules.

== Culture and sightseeing ==

=== Buildings ===
* [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] church on Wiesenweg – [[aisleless church]] rebuilt in 1952, although possibly incorporating parts of its forerunner from 1766.
* Hauptstraße 5 – residential part of a [[Timber framing|timber-frame]] ''Quereinhaus'' (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), with a partly slated roof, reputedly from 1766.
* Hauptstraße 9 – timber-frame house, partly solid, from about 1900.
* Wayside cross – southwest of the village at the municipal limit with [[Retterath]].<ref>[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Vulkaneifel.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district]</ref>

=== Natural monuments ===
As in many municipalities in this area that long stood under Napoleonic hegemony, the hundredth anniversary of the liberation from the “Frenchman’s Yoke” was also celebrated here in 1913 with the planting of a so-called ''Kaiserlinde'' (“Emperor’s [[Tilia|limetree]]”) in [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II’s]] honour and the placing of a memorial stone. The stone can still be seen on Schulstraße at the old school.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100306150635/http://www.vgv-kelberg.de/vg_kelberg/Gemeinden/Arbach/ Arbach in the collective municipality’s Web pages] {{in lang|de}}

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