Verbandsgemeinde Jockgrim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Area :	40.91 km 2
Residents:	17,161 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	419 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GER
Association key :	07 3 34 5003
Association structure:	4 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	Untere ; Buchstrasse 22 76751 Jockgrim
Website :	www.vg-jockgrim.de
Mayor :	Karl Dieter Wünstel ( CDU )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Jockgrim in the district of Germersheim

The Verbandsgemeinde Jockgrim is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde belong to four independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous community Jockgrim . The Verbandsgemeinde was created during the administrative reform in 1972 and is located in the southern Palatinate .

Association members communities

Local parish	Area (km²)	Residents
Hatzenbühl	7.76	2,832
Jockgrim	12.61	7,407
Neupotz	7.78	1.921
Rheinzabern	12.76	5,001
Verbandsgemeinde Jockgrim	40.92	17.161

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	4,852
1835	5,450
1871	5,377
1905	6.104
1939	7,776
1950	8,238

year	Residents
1961	9,327
1970	11,499
1987	13,411
1997	15,388
2005	16,249
2019	17.161

politics

Association municipal council

The Jockgrim municipal council consists of 32 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	GREEN	FWG	BfJ	total
2019	6th	12	3	5	6th	-	32 seats
2014	7th	14th	2	3	4th	2	32 seats
2009	8th	13	2	3	3	3	32 seats
2004	7th	15th	2	3	3	2	32 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group of the Verbandsgemeinde Jockgrim e. V.
BfJ = Citizen for Jockgrim e. V.

mayor

1972–1991: Richard Werling
1992–2001: Siegfried Schloß (CDU)
2002–2017: Uwe Schwind (SPD)
since 2018: Karl Dieter Wünstel (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: “In a shield border quartered by silver and red with a lowered shield head, top right an A-shaped silver plow disc in blue, top left in gold an equilateral black triangle with a cross at the top, through which a red cord twists, lower right in silver over a lying green tobacco leaf a black shepherd's crook and a black shepherd's shovel, crossed diagonally, lower left in blue over a silver fish a silver bell. "

The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1984 and shows the main elements of the coats of arms of the four local communities.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council elections 2019 Jockgrim. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
↑ https://www.vg-jockgrim.de/fileadmin/vg_jockgrim/rat_verwaltung/kurz_notiert/neuheiten/2017/11_november/Eingabe_VG_Jockgrim.png
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3

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

[regionaldaten-2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data