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Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse.
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
The municipality’s arms are blazoned: Per pale Sable a lion rampant Or armed and langued Gules, and Or an apple twig fructed of two Vert.
The first discovery of a fossil femur of a great ape Paidopithex rhenanus (now considered to be an ape relative not an ape - possibly being a Pliopithecoid) was made near Eppelsheim in 1820. The finding was made in deposits of the prehistoric Rhine river and are about 10 million years old. These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid Deinotherium.
In October 2017, scientists from the Natural History Museum at Mainz reported that two teeth about 5 to 8 million years old had been found in 2016, that resemble those of extinct human relatives Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus afarensis. Early reactions to the "Eppelsheim teeth" ranged from interest to dismissal while the researchers indicated that they will continue their investigations and analysis.
The Dinotherium-Museum in Eppelsheim shows original finds of fossil mammals from local deposits. One attraction at the Dinotherium-Museum is the cast of a Deinotherium skull that was unearthed in 1835 near Eppelsheim. The Dinotherium-Museum was former mayor Heiner Roos's brainchild.
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Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse.
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
The municipality’s arms are blazoned: Per pale Sable a lion rampant Or armed and langued Gules, and Or an apple twig fructed of two Vert.
The first discovery of a fossil femur of a great ape Paidopithex rhenanus (now considered to be an ape relative not an ape - possibly being a Pliopithecoid) was made near Eppelsheim in 1820. The finding was made in deposits of the prehistoric Rhine river and are about 10 million years old. These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid Deinotherium.
In October 2017, scientists from the Natural History Museum at Mainz reported that two teeth about 5 to 8 million years old had been found in 2016, that resemble those of extinct human relatives Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus afarensis. Early reactions to the "Eppelsheim teeth" ranged from interest to dismissal while the researchers indicated that they will continue their investigations and analysis.
The Dinotherium-Museum in Eppelsheim shows original finds of fossil mammals from local deposits. One attraction at the Dinotherium-Museum is the cast of a Deinotherium skull that was unearthed in 1835 near Eppelsheim. The Dinotherium-Museum was former mayor Heiner Roos's brainchild.