Offenheim Explained

Image Coa:Wappen von Offenheim.png
Coordinates:49.7256°N 8.0303°W
Image Plan:Offenheim in AZ.svg
State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District:Alzey-Worms
Verbandsgemeinde:Alzey-Land
Elevation:229
Area:13.88
Postal Code:55234
Area Code:06736
Licence:AZ
Gemeindeschlüssel:07 3 31 053
Website:www.offenheim.de
Mayor:Peter Odermann[1]
Leader Term:2019 - 24

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

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]

BfO 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.

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/3310105300.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat