Offenheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Alzey Land
Height :	229 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.88 km 2
Residents:	662 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06736
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 053
Association administration address:	Weinrufstrasse 38 55232 Alzey
Website :	www.offenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Odermann (BfO)
Location of the local community Offenheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Offenheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

geography

The community in the middle of Rheinhessen Switzerland has 842 hectares of forest area, the largest and almost only forest area in Rheinhessen . In the Vorholzwald there is also the highest elevation in Rheinhessen, the Kappelberg, at 358 meters .

history

Offenheim was first mentioned in a document in 768, when Accuratus and Unsula donated their property in the Offenheim district to the Lorsch monastery . On March 26th, 771 the place is abbreviated Offenh. mentioned again when a man named Glimmund donated a vineyard to this monastery. The document mentions the Maronoberge location , it is one of the first mentions of a wine location in Germany. Another document dated March 5, 775 mentions Offenheim without an abbreviation and also in today's writing. Later the place was also written Uffinheim (1295) and Offinheim (1357).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Offenheim consists of twelve 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	LEFT	BfO	FWG	WGK	total
2019	-	1	6th	-	5	12 seats
2014	4th	1	5	2	-	12 seats
2009	5	1	4th	2	-	12 seats
2004	4th	-	5	3	-	12 seats

• BfO = Citizens for Offenheim e. V.
• FWG = Free Voters' Group Offenheim e. V.
• WGK = Voter Group Knecht

mayor

Local mayor is Peter Odermann (BfO). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 59.90% of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver a rooted green oak, carrying two shields on a golden clasp; in the right shield in black a golden lion, armored, tongued and crowned in red, in the left shield in red a growing golden crook. "

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Offenheim
• List of natural monuments in Offenheim

literature

• Literature about Offenheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present, Gießen 1905, pp. 363–365

Web links

Commons : Offenheim  - Collection of Images

• Official homepage of the local community Offenheim
• Brief information from the Alzey-Land community about the Offenheim community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Codex Laureshamensis (Volume 2) Copy book, part 1: Upper Rhine, Lobden, Worms, Nahe and Speiergau - Darmstadt, 1933
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Offenheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .