Offenheim

Offenheim
Offenheim
Location of Offenheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates	49°43′32″N 8°01′49″E / 49.72556°N 8.03028°E / 49.72556; 8.03028Coordinates: 49°43′32″N 8°01′49″E / 49.72556°N 8.03028°E / 49.72556; 8.03028
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Mayor	Karl-Ludwig Becker (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	13.88 km2 (5.36 sq mi)
Elevation	229 m  (751 ft)
Population	601 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	43 /km2 (112 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	AZ
Postal code	55234
Area code	06736
Website	www.offenheim.de

Offenheim 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

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

In 786, Offenheim had its first documentary mention in Lorsch Abbey’s donation directory.

Politics

Municipal council

Town council

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^[2]:

	SPD	LINKE	BfO	FWG	Total
2009	5	1	4	2	12 seats
2004	4	-	5	3	12 seats

Coat of arms

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

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)
• Offenheim in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.