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

Offenheim
Coat of arms of Offenheim
Location of Offenheim within Alzey-Worms district
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Offenheim is located in Germany
Offenheim
Offenheim
Offenheim is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Offenheim
Offenheim
Coordinates: 49°43′32″N 08°01′49″E / 49.72556°N 8.03028°E / 49.72556; 8.03028
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictAlzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.Alzey-Land
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Peter Odermann[1]
Area
 • Total13.88 km2 (5.36 sq mi)
Elevation
229 m (751 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total666
 • Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55234
Dialling codes06736
Vehicle registrationAZ
Websitewww.offenheim.de

Geography

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Location

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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

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

Politics

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Municipal council

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
  3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
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