Wonsheim Explained

Image Coa:DEU Wonsheim COA.svg
Coordinates:49.7831°N 7.9625°W
Image Plan:Wonsheim in AZ.svg
State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District:Alzey-Worms
Verbandsgemeinde:Wöllstein
Elevation:178
Area:8.79
Postal Code:55599
Area Code:06703
Licence:AZ
Gemeindeschlüssel:07 3 31 075
Website:www.wonsheim-rhh.de
Mayor:Jochen Emrich[1]
Leader Term:2019 - 24

Wonsheim 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

As a winegrowing centre, Wonsheim lies in Germany's biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of the wine region of Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wöllstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Through the municipality flows the river Dunselbach.

History

On 10 June 800, Wonsheim had its first documentary mention in a donation document from Fulda Abbey as Vuanesheim.

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]

WG Haas Total
2009 3 9 12 seats
2004 3 9 12 seats

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Chapé, lozengy argent and azure, Or an orb banded and charged with a cross bottonnée gules both gemmed of the first and sable a lion rampant of the third armed, langued and crowned of the fourth.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Wonsheim lies near Autobahnen A 61 and A 63.

External links

Town's official webpage]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/3310000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms
  2. Web site: LWL RLP - Kommunalwahlen: Ergebnisse der Ratswahlen: Wahlergebnisse 2009: Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen:. 2021-05-19. www.wahlen.rlp.de.