Loerzweiler

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Bodenheim
Height :	154 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.74 km 2
Residents:	2348 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	409 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55296
Area code :	06138
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 034
Association administration address:	Am Dollesplatz 1 ; 55294 Bodenheim
Website :	www.loerzweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Steffan Haub
Location of the local community Lörzweiler in the Mainz-Bingen district

Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael

Lörzweiler is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim .

geography

The wine-growing community is characterized in particular by its wines from the major areas of Mainz St. Alban and Niersteiner Gutes Domtal with its individual layers of Ölgild, Königstuhl and Hohberg. Lörzweiler borders on Bodenheim , Gau-Bischofsheim , Harxheim and Mommenheim . The Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz is about 10 kilometers north of the municipality.

In the southern district the 175.8 m above sea level rises . NHN high king's chair, also called the king's chair, on which Conrad II was supposedly elected king on September 8, 1024 .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Lörzweiler consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	4th	5	2	5	16 seats
2014	5	5	1	5	16 seats
2009	7th	5	-	4th	16 seats
2004	6th	6th	-	4th	16 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Lörzweiler e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Steffan Haub (CDU). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he narrowly prevailed with a share of 50.42% of the vote and is the successor to Michael Christ, who was no longer running.

coat of arms

	Blazon : ". In a silver fünfblättriges bewurzeltes black lime tree with green Blattäderung"
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to the barons of Hettersdorf , the former feudal lords of Lörzweiler, who inherited the Hund von Saulheim around 1700 . It was approved on August 11, 1955 by the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz .

Community partnerships

The partner municipality is the French municipality of Époisses .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Lookout tower at the Koenigstuhl in Lörzweiler

The “Lörzweiler Königstuhl” observation tower was inaugurated to the south-east of the village in July 2015 and offers a good panoramic view of the area.

Regular events

The parish celebrates the parish festival annually on the weekend after Ascension Day .
From the first Friday in July the “Wine Festival at the Königstuhl” will be celebrated for four days.
Every year in mid-June, the court and garden festival takes place at the Dörrschuck winery .
Every year on the first weekend in September, the courtyard festival takes place in the Haub winery .

traffic

From 1896 to 1985 (in freight traffic until 1989) Lörzweiler was connected to the rail traffic of the now disused Bodenheim – Alzey railway via the Harxheim station. The train station, originally called "Harxheim (Reinh.)", Was renamed "Harxheim-Lörzweiler" on April 1, 1910.

literature

In the autobiographical novel Der Lügner , Ewald Gauer describes in many short, entertaining episodes how he spent his childhood in Lörzweiler in the 1960s.
Literature about Lörzweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Lörzweiler - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bodenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .

↑ Description of the coat of arms on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim

↑ Tower at the Königstuhl in Lörzweiler is inaugurated in Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 3, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2015

^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 19, 1910, No. 11. Announcement No. 201, p. 103.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[DE-RP_LANDIS-Karte-2] Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

[3] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

[4] The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bodenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .

[Wappen-5] Description of the coat of arms on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim

[6] Tower at the Königstuhl in Lörzweiler is inaugurated in Allgemeine-zeitung.de on July 3, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2015

[7] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 19, 1910, No. 11. Announcement No. 201, p. 103.