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Hausbay is a Verbandsgemeinde in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the location of a large wind farm featuring the world's highest wind energy tower.

Key facts

German place.type
Ortsgemeinde
German place.image_photo
Hausbay01.jpg
German place.image_caption
Hausbay municipal center, 2006
German place.image_coa
DEU Hausbay COA.svg
German place.image_plan
Hausbay in SIM.svg
German place.state
Rheinland-Pfalz
German place.district
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
German place.Verbandsgemeinde
Hunsrück-Mittelrhein
German place.elevation
400-470
German place.area
3.24
German place.postal_code
56291
German place.area_code
06746
German place.licence
SIM
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
07 1 40 047
German place.mayor
Thomas Stroschein
German place.leader_term
2019–24

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Hausbay is a Verbandsgemeinde in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the location of a large wind farm featuring the world's highest wind energy tower.

==Geography== Hausbay lies in the Hunsrück between Emmelshausen (8 km) and Kastellaun (10 km). The Autobahn A 61 (3 km) and Bundesstraße 327 (2 km) are also nearby. Hausbay lies at the forks of two streams, the Lingerhahner Bach and the Kelsiter Bach, whose combined flow is known thereafter as the Baybach.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hausbay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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