Verbandsgemeinde Kandel

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Area :	69.01 km 2
Residents:	16,262 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	236 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GER
Association key :	07 3 34 5004
Association structure:	7 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	Gartenstrasse 8 ; 76870 Kandel
Website :	www.vg-kandel.de
Mayor :	Volker Poss ( SPD )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel in the district of Germersheim

The Verbandsgemeinde Kandel is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality of the association includes the city of Kandel and six independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous city of Kandel. It is located in the southern Palatinate .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Erlenbach near Kandel	5.47	705
Freckenfeld	11.13	1,586
Kandel , city	26.64	9,034
Minfeld	8.41	1,693
Steinweiler	11.88	1,954
Vollmersweiler	2.18	198
Winches	3.21	1,092
Verbandsgemeinde Kandel	68.92	16,262

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	9,354
1835	10,052
1871	8,756
1905	8,914
1939	10.146
1950	10,346

year	Residents
1961	10,993
1970	12,228
1987	13,668
1997	14,811
2005	15,391
2019	16,262

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Kandel 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	AfD	FDP	GREEN	LEFT	FWG	total
2019	9	9	2	2	5	1	4th	32 seats
2014	12	11	-	1	3	1	4th	32 seats
2009	12	10	-	2	3	-	5	32 seats
2004	11	11	-	3	3	-	4th	32 seats

FWG = Free Voting Community Verbandsgemeinde Kandel e. V.

mayor

Mayor of the community of Kandel is Volker Poß (SPD). In the direct election on September 25, 2016, he was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with a share of the vote of 54.5%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a shield border split by silver and blue, splitby blue and silver, on the right an overturned silver sword with a golden pommel, on the top right angled by a six-pointed golden star, on the left a green acorn with two green oak leaves."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1985 . The sword and the star were taken from the coat of arms of the city of Kandel, the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde, and the acorn symbolizes the forest in the entire area.

Web links

Verbandsgemeinde Kandel

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 Kandel. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
^ Die Rheinpfalz: Kandel: Association Mayor Poss confirmed in office at election. September 25, 2016, accessed December 7, 2019 .
^ 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