Mertesheim

Mertesheim
Mertesheim
Coat of arms of Mertesheim
Mertesheim is located in Germany
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Mertesheim
Coordinates 49°34′18″N 8°08′8″E / 49.57167°N 8.13556°E / 49.57167; 8.13556Coordinates: 49°34′18″N 8°08′8″E / 49.57167°N 8.13556°E / 49.57167; 8.13556
Administration
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc. Grünstadt-Land
Mayor Tony Schuck
Basic statistics
Area 2.20 km2 (0.85 sq mi)
Elevation 201 m  (659 ft)
Population 403 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 183 /km2 (474 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate DÜW
Postal code 67271
Area code 06359
Website www.gruenstadt-land.de

Mertesheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.

History

In 771, Meldrisheim had its first documentary mention. Until 1969 it belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal. Currently it is in the district of Bad Dürkheim, and it joined the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land in 1972.

Religion

In 2007, 43.5% of the inhabitants were Catholic and 35.3% Evangelical. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none[2].

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman[3].

Mayors

Since 2007, Tony Schuck has been Mayor of Mertesheim. He succeeded Alfred Grasmück (SPD).

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In Rot auf grünem Dreiberg ein schreitender widersehender silberner Hirsch mit einem goldenen Wiederkreuz statt des Geweihs.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules on a mount of three in base vert a stag passant reguardant argent unguled Or with a cross crosslet of the same instead of attires.

The German blazon, however, does not mention the stag’s golden hooves (“unguled Or”).

The arms were approved in 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and go back to a seal from the 16th century[4].

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Mertesheim lies on the Eistalbahn (railway) running between Grünstadt and Ramsen and is served by scheduled Regionalbahn trains. Public transport is integrated into the VRN, whose fares therefore apply.

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. ^ KommWis, Stand: 31.12.2007
  3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat [1]
  4. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3

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