Framersheim Explained

Image Coa:DEU Framersheim COA.svg
Coordinates:49.7581°N 8.1742°W
Image Plan:Framersheim in AZ.svg
State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District:Alzey-Worms
Verbandsgemeinde:Alzey-Land
Elevation:171
Area:9.31
Postal Code:55234
Area Code:06733
Licence:AZ
Gemeindeschlüssel:07 3 31 026
Website:www.framersheim.de
Mayor:Felix Schmidt[1]
Leader Term:2019 - 24

Framersheim 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 lies in Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

Neighbouring municipalities

Framersheim's neighbours are Alzey-Schafhausen, Dittelsheim-Heßloch, Gau-Heppenheim and Gau-Odernheim.

History

In 775, Framersheim had its first documentary mention when a document from Lorsch Abbey mentioned a vineyard in Framersheim.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 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]

Zink Total
2009 4 2 7 3 16 seats

Mayors

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Sable a kettle-hat argent pierced each side with a cord gules, itself nowed at each end and looped once in base.

The “kettle-hat” (Kesselhut in German) apparently was once typical. It appeared in the village seal as early as 1459. It could be a canting charge for the family Kessler von Sarmsheim who held the local castle in the Middle Ages.[3]

Economy and infrastructure

With local winemaking businesses, business is done by so-called self-marketers, who mostly market their own wares directly to end users.

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/3310000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms
  2. http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/3310102600.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
  3. http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/f/framersh.htm Description and explanation of Framersheim’s arms