Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Area :	37.68 km 2
Residents:	17,000 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	451 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	RP
Association key :	07 3 38 5006
Association structure:	6 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	Mühltorstrasse 25 ; 67245 Lambsheim
Website :	www.lambsheim-hessheim.de
Mayor :	Michael Reith ( SPD )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

The Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde consists of six independent local congregations . The administrative seat is in the municipality of Lambsheim , a second administrative office was set up in Heßheim . 17,000 people live in the administrative area.

It was re-formed on July 1, 2014 from the local congregations of the jointly dissolved Verbandsgemeinde Heßheim and the commune Lambsheim , which had been free until then .

Association members communities

Local parish	Area (km²)	Residents
Beindersheim	5.73	3,335
Großniedesheim	3.78	1,309
Hessheim	5.78	3,147
Heuchelheim near Frankenthal	5.76	1,281
Kleinniedesheim	3.88	946
Lambsheim	12.75	6,982
Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim	37.68	17,000

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The previous community of Heßheim was created in 1972 as part of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform . Previously, the administrative structures originating from the Palatinate (Bavaria) (1816–1946) essentially applied in the then administrative district of Palatinate . The Lambsheim community has not previously belonged to any association community.

On September 28, 2010 the state government passed the “First Law on Local and Administrative Reform” with the aim of improving the efficiency, competitiveness and administrative power of local structures. For municipalities it was stipulated that these should include at least 12,000 inhabitants (main residence on June 30, 2009), for municipalities not belonging to the association, the number of inhabitants was set at 10,000. The so-called voluntary phase ended on June 30, 2012.

In February 2012 the mayors of the community-free community of Lambsheim, the community of Heßheim and the associated local communities, after approving resolutions of the councils, signed an agreement on the formation of a community community .

In the “State Law on the Voluntary Formation of the New Association Community of Lambsheim-Heßheim” of November 22, 2013, it was stipulated that the new association community will initially be called “Lambsheim-Heßheim”. The competent state ministry should ultimately determine the name of the new association within a year. The association administration of the new association has its seat in Lambsheim , a second administrative office is set up in Heßheim .

The state grants the new municipality a one-time resident-related allocation of 784,700 on the occasion of its voluntary formation. In addition, the association receives an allocation of 2,000,000 euros to reduce its liabilities.

In the period from January 30th to April 24th 2015, the Verbandsgemeinde held an ideas competition for both the name and the new coat of arms. On this basis, the municipal council decided on May 15, 2015 to keep the provisional name. The Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Ministry approved this proposal.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	3,535
1835	5,553
1871	6.115
1905	8,141
1939	8,173
1950	9,029

year	Residents
1961	10,341
1970	13.051
1987	14,166
1997	14,198
2005	15,682
2019	17,000

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Lambsheim-Heßheim 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	GREEN	FDP	FWG	total
2019	11	9	4th	2	6th	32 seats
2014	11	12	3	-	6th	32 seats

FWG = Free Voters' Group Lambsheim-Heßheim eV

mayor

In the runoff election on June 8, 2014, Michael Reith (SPD) was directly elected mayor of the new community with 58.2%, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the first ballot on May 25, 2014. Reith's eight-year term began on July 1, 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a shield border divided sixteen times by black and gold, a curved black tip, inside a red-armored golden lion, who leans on a shield crossed in silver and red, above three gold stars, in front in gold a green oak branch with two red acorns and a green oak leaf, behind in gold a green sheaf of wheat with a red ribbon, above it a red key and a red sword crossed diagonally. "

The coat of arms of the eponymous municipalities Lambsheim (with the Palatinate lion and the shield of the Leiser von Lambsheim ) and Heßheim (with the three stars) are represented in the curved tip of the coat of arms shield . The acorns from the coats of arms of the local communities Großniedesheim and Kleinniedesheim are anchored in the front field . In the back field is the sheaf of ears from the coat of arms of Heuchelheim , above it the key and sword from the coat of arms of Beindersheim . The sixteen-fold division of the shield border is not discussed in the explanations given so far.

The municipal council approved the coat of arms designed by Dieter Krieger on July 1, 2015. The Landesarchiv Speyer issued a positive report and recommended the award. The formal award by the municipal supervisory authority of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is still pending (as of July 31, 2015).

Individual evidence

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

↑ First state law on local and administrative reform of September 28, 2010 (PDF; 685 kB)

^ Agreement on the voluntary formation of the new Lambsheim-Heßheim community of February 27, 2012

↑ ^a ^b State law on the voluntary formation of the new community of Lambsheim-Heßheim of November 22, 2013