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
Alzey () is a ''Verband''-free town – one belonging to no ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the fifth-largest town in Rhenish Hesse, after Mainz, Worms, Germany, Worms, Ingelheim am Rhein ...
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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:
Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
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Coat of arms
The municipality's arms
Arms or ARMS may refer to:
*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
People
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
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
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
Alzey-Worms
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