Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Area :	173.91 km 2
Residents:	24,876 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	AZ
Association key :	07 3 31 5001
Association structure:	24 municipalities
Association administration address :	Weinrufstrasse 38 55232 Alzey
Website :	www.alzey-land.de
Mayor :	Steffen Unger
Location of the community of Alzey-Land in the Alzey-Worms district

The Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde consists of 24 independent local congregations . The administrative seat is in the eponymous city of Alzey , which does not belong to the association.

geography

The association municipality with its 24 municipalities surrounds the district town of Alzey in a ring. The area covers 174 square kilometers.

Association members communities

The following table lists the 24 local parishes including the number of inhabitants as of December 31, 2019.

Local parish	population	Vineyard area in hectares
Albig	1,606	358
Bechenheim	425	32
Bechtolsheim	1,728	244
Bermersheim vor der Höhe	338	90
Biebelnheim	659	183
Bornheim	925	105
Dintesheim	155	37
Eppelsheim	1,198	93
Erbes-Büdesheim	1.405	48
Esselborn	374	27
Flomborn	1,070	96
Flonheim	2,705	403
Framersheim	1,559	288
Freimersheim	726	11
Gau-Heppenheim	517	110
Gau-Odernheim	3,867	373
Chain home	323	29
Lonsheim	571	121
Mauchenheim	960	74
Naked	610	25th
Nieder-meadows	625	-
Ober-Flörsheim	1,248	78
Offenheim	662	80
Wahlheim	576	51

history

The Alzey-Land Association was formed with effect from April 22, 1972 through the 12th State Law on Administrative Simplification of March 1, 1972. On February 13, 1973, the acquisition of the former chamber building in the district town of Alzey was agreed with the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture . The administration of the Verbandsgemeinde was thus able to start its work in the building.

Population development

The development of the population of the Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land, based on the area of ​​today's Verbandsgemeinde; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 13,510 1835 20,025 1871 18,105 1905 18,201 1939 17,688 1950 21,439

year Residents 1961 19.901 1970 19.308 1987 18,681 1997 22,834 2005 24,109 2019 24,876

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Alzey-Land consists of 36 honorary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	left	FWG	total
2019	12	9	3	2	10	36 seats
2014	15th	10	2	-	9	36 seats
2009	14th	9	3	-	10	36 seats
2004	14th	11	2	-	9	36 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Alzey-Land eV

mayor

1. 1972–1984: Karl Kern (SPD)
2. 1984–2004: Ernst Walter Görisch (SPD)
3. since 2004: Steffen Unger (non-party - candidate from CDU and FWG)

In the direct election on March 11, 2012, Steffen Unger was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with a share of the vote of 68.21%.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Verbandsgemeinde was approved by order of May 2, 1986. According to the expert opinion of the Landesarchiv Speyer , the coat of arms shows a growing, red-crowned and red-armored lion inside a black shield board in a shield divided at an angle to the left, and a green grapevine with a leaf in silver at the bottom left .

The coat of arms thus connects the past and present of the community of Alzey-Land formed by the administrative reform. The number of communities is represented by the 24 Berkel of grapes . At the same time, the grapes emphasize the special importance of viticulture for the region. The lion indicates that 17 municipalities of the Verbandsgemeinde belonged to the Electoral Palatinate before the French Revolution .

Culture

Wine festival and wine queen

The Verbandsgemeinde has been organizing a wine festival on the last weekend in June in one of its local communities since 1987 . Since 2009, the association has also chosen its own wine queen for the wine festival . Framersheim is the only community that has so far been able to provide two wine queens.

1. 2009: Veronika I. (Strubel-Roos Winery / Flonheim )
2. 2010: Kerstin I. (Rupp / Framersheim winery )
3. 2011: Annette I. (Weingut Rehn / Erbes-Büdesheim )
4. 2012: Daniela I. ( Biebelnheim )
5. 2013: Ariane I. (Knell / Mauchenheim winery )
6. 2014: Melanie Diana I (Weingut Kürner / Framersheim)
7. 2015: Sarah Elisa I ( Gau-Odernheim )
8. 2016: Sina I. ( Bechtolsheim )
9. 2017: Anna I. (Weingut Nierstheimer / Nack )
10. 2018: Katharina I ( Esselborn )
11. 2019: Anna II. ( Freimersheim )

Theater days

The Verbandsgemeinde has been organizing the Theatertage Alzeyer Land since 2011 . The first Theatertage is under the motto Rheinhessen celebrates its birthday and should be a look forward to the 200th birthday of Rheinhessen in 2016.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Since local public transport (ÖPNV) is mainly geared towards work and school traffic, so-called Ruftaxi traffic has existed since 1994 . This offers the opportunity to make trips within the Alzey-Land association on weekends and evenings. Ruftaxi traffic complements local public transport and helps improve the infrastructure.

media

Once a week, the “news sheet for the Alzey-Land Association” appears, formerly the official gazette , which has an official and a non-official part and reports on the results of the respective local community council meetings and other events. The newsletter has a circulation of 10,270 copies and is distributed free of charge to all households.

Public facilities

The Verbandsgemeinde is the sponsor of numerous community-owned institutions. Such as the community kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools and event halls, such as the Petersberghalle in Gau-Odernheim or the Adelbergstadion in Flonheim.

Also for the wastewater treatment , the municipality with its three sewage treatment plants responsible Bechtolsheim, Flonheim and Nack / Lower Meadows. All sewage treatment plants correspond to the third purification stage and thus meet today's requirements.

Volunteer firefighter

With the exception of the smallest town (Dintesheim), the association has voluntary fire brigades in all local communities , which are supported by the association administration. The total number of volunteer firefighters is over 600, including 28 women.

kindergarten

In addition to the kindergartens and day-care centers run by the Alzey-Land association in Biebelnheim, Eppelsheim, Flomborn, Flonheim, Framersheim, Gau-Heppenheim, Gau-Odernheim, Mauchenheim, Nieder-Wiesen and Wahlheim, there are denominational kindergartens in Albig, Bechtolsheim, Bornheim, Ober-Flörsheim and Offenheim (all Protestant) and the Catholic kindergarten St. Bartholomäus in Erbes-Büdesheim.

schools

The following seven elementary schools and two secondary schools , or Realschule plus since the school year 2009/2010 , are supported by the Alzey-Land association:

Location of the school	Responsible for:	Realschule plus (formerly Hauptschule) is also responsible for:
Primary school Albig	Albig and Bermersheim vdH	-
Bechtolsheim elementary school	Bechtolsheim and Biebelnheim	-
Erbes-Büdesheim primary school	Erbes-Büdesheim, Nack and Nieder-Wiesen	-
Mauchenheim primary school	Bechenheim, Mauchenheim and Offenheim	-
Flomborn primary school / secondary school plus Flomborn – Flörsheim-Dalsheim	Dintesheim, Eppelsheim, Esselborn, Flomborn, Freimersheim, Gau-Heppenheim, Kettenheim, Ober-Flörsheim and Wahlheim	Framersheim, Mauchenheim and Offenheim
Flonheim primary school / secondary school plus Flonheim	Bornheim, Flonheim, Lonsheim	Albig, Bechenheim, Bechtolsheim, Bermersheim, Biebelheim, Erbes-Büdesheim, Gau-Odernheim, Nack and Nieder-Wiesen
Primary school Gau-Odernheim	Gau-Odernheim and Framersheim	-

Secondary schools are supported by the Alzey-Worms district .

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Walter Görisch , Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Alzey-Land, in 400 Years City Hall Bechtolsheim 1492–1992, p. 74 ff
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council elections 2019. Accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2012. 331 01 Alzey-Land, VG. March 19, 2012, accessed November 24, 2019 . 
6. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Weinköniginnen. alzey-land.de, accessed on November 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Steffen Unger ; Greetings, in: Alzey-Land Nachrichten-Blatt, No. 31, Volume 27, August 4, 2011, p. 12