Association municipality of Hagenbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′  N , 8 ° 15 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Area :	33.75 km 2
Residents:	10,639 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	315 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GER
Association key :	07 3 34 5002
Association structure:	4 municipalities
Association administration address :	Ludwigstrasse 20 76767 Hagenbach
Website :	www.vg-hagenbach.de
Mayor :	Reinhard Scherrer ( SPD )
Location of the community of Hagenbach in the district of Germersheim

The Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde includes three local parishes and the eponymous city of Hagenbach , the administrative seat is in Hagenbach. The Verbandsgemeinde is located in the south of the district.

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Berg (Palatinate)	6.77	2,020
Hagenbach , city	15.85	5,444
Neuburg on the Rhine	8.25	2,555
Scheibenhardt	2.88	620
Association municipality of Hagenbach	33.75	10,639

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach became part of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional and administrative reform on the basis of the "Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate" of March 1, 1972, came into force on April 22, 1972, newly formed.

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's Verbandsgemeinde Hagenbach; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 4,001 1835 4,800 1871 5,050 1905 5,000 1939 6,183 1950 5,979

year Residents 1961 6,937 1970 9.111 1987 9,609 1997 10,797 2005 10,842 2019 10,639

politics

Association municipal council

The Hagenbach municipal council consists of 28 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	AfD	FDP	Green	FWG	WGN	total
2019	7th	8th	3	2	3	2	3	28 seats
2014	10	11	-	-	2	3	2	28 seats
2009	10	11	-	-	2	3	2	28 seats
2004	9	12	-	-	2	3	2	28 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Berg (Pfalz) e. V.
• WGN = voter group Neuburg e. V.

mayor

1972–1987:	Karl August Vogel (CDU)
1987-2005:	Dietmar Brand (CDU)
since 2005:	Reinhard Scherrer (SPD)

In the direct election on October 27, 2012, Reinhard Scherrer was confirmed in his office for another eight years with a share of the vote of 62.9%.

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: “In a four-fold shield border divided by gold and green , in a four- fold shield a green beech tree with roots in silver at the top right, a gold anchor in black at the top left, a floating silver cross in blue at the bottom right, a silver cross in gold at the bottom left over a green three-mountain a red rose."

The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1985 and shows the main elements of the coats of arms of the four local communities.

Web links

• Association municipality of Hagenbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association municipal council elections 2019 Hagenbach. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Pfalz-Express: Reinhard Scherrer remains head of town hall in Hagenbach. October 28, 2012, accessed December 7, 2019 . 
5. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3