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Offenheim
View on WikipediaOffenheim (German pronunciation: [ˈɔfn̩haɪm]) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Key Information
Geography
[edit]Location
[edit]The municipality, which lies in the middle of the Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland, has 842 ha of woodland, giving it the biggest and almost the only wooded area in Rhenish Hesse. In the Vorholzwald (forest) is found Rhenish Hesse's highest elevation at 358 m above sea level, the Kappelberg. Offenheim belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.
History
[edit]In 786, Offenheim had its first documentary mention in Lorsch Abbey’s donation directory.
Politics
[edit]Municipal council
[edit]The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3]
| SPD | LINKE | BfO | FWG | Total | |
| 2009 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 seats |
| 2004 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 12 seats |
Coat of arms
[edit]The municipality's arms might be described thus: Argent an oak eradicated leafed of eleven vert, fretted in the boughs a bow unstrung in fesse Or on each end of which an inescutcheon, the dexter sable in bend sinister charged with a lion rampant sinister Or langued and crowned gules, and the sinister gules in bend charged with the head of a bishop's crozier Or, the point of the crook in the shape of a trefoil in bend sinister.
References
[edit]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2023" (in German). Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
External links
[edit]- Municipality’s official webpage (in German)
- Offenheim in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
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