Mauchenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Alzey-Worms
Alzey-Worms () is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the district Groß-Gerau (Hesse), the city of Worms and the districts of Bad Dürkheim, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Binge ...
district in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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Germany
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Geography
Location
The municipality lies in
Rhenish Hesse
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and belongs to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in
Alzey. Mauchenheim lies roughly 5 km from
Orbis, where the river
Selz
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It rises near the village of Orbis in the county of Donnersbergkrei ...
rises. This brook empties into the
Rhine
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Ingelheim
Ingelheim (), officially Ingelheim am Rhein ( en, Ingelheim upon Rhine), is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. The town sprawls along the Rhine's west bank. It has been Mainz-Bingen's district seat ...
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History
Mauchenheim had its first documentary mention in 867 in a deed of donation to Lorsch Abbey. But it is proven, that there have been human settlements long before, as there are remainings of a Roman Villa Rustica below ground.
During the last centuries Mauchenheim belonged to several states and countries. Since 1777 it was part of Bavaria. From 1798 till 1814 Mauchenheim was part of France. Till 1969 it belonged to Palatinate. Today Mauchenheim lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate.
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:
Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
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Mayor
Mauchenheim's current mayor is Udo Arm.
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure under a baldachin Or Saint Remigius as a bishop vested argent and mitred of the same garnished of the second, in his dexter hand a crozier of the second, in his sinister hand a book gules garnished of the second, at his feet an escutcheon of the second charged with the letter M of the fourth.
This is, as far as is possible, a direct translation of the German blazon (''In blau unter goldenem Baldachin der heilige Remigius als Bischof in silbernem Gewand, mit goldbesetzter silberner Mitra, in der Rechten einen goldenen Krummstab, in der Linken ein goldbeschlagenes rotes Buch haltend, zu seinen Füßen ein goldener Schild, darin ein roter Majuskelbuchstabe M'').
The arms were granted on 20 December 1934.
Notable natives and residents
* Hermann Heinrich Fitting, journalist
Other
The noble family Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (''genannt'' means “called”) named itself after Mauchenheim.
References
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
Alzey-Worms
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