Monzernheim

Monzernheim
Monzernheim
Location of Monzernheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates	49°43′17″N 8°13′42″E / 49.72139°N 8.22833°E / 49.72139; 8.22833Coordinates: 49°43′17″N 8°13′42″E / 49.72139°N 8.22833°E / 49.72139; 8.22833
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Westhofen
Mayor	Günther Muth
Basic statistics
Area	3.95 km2 (1.53 sq mi)
Elevation	219 m  (719 ft)
Population	627 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	159 /km2 (411 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	AZ
Postal code	55234
Area code	06244
Website	www.monzernheim.de

Monzernheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

As a winegrowing centre, Monzernheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Westhofen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman^[2].

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and argent a bunch of grapes palewise leafed of two and couped vert.

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf. 
2. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage (German)

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.