Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 8 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Area :	69.81 km 2
Residents:	17,040 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	244 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GER
Association key :	07 3 34 5005
Association structure:	6 municipalities
Association administration address :	Hauptstrasse 60 67360 Lingenfeld
Website :	www.vg-lingenfeld.de
Mayor :	Frank Leibeck ( SPD )
Location of the Lingenfeld community in the district of Germersheim

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

Association members communities

Local parish	Area (km²)	Residents
Freisbach	4.98	1,146
Lingenfeld	15.26	5,758
Lustadt	23.51	3,406
Schwegenheim	12.27	3,056
Weingarten (Palatinate)	6.67	1,878
Westheim (Palatinate)	7.12	1,796
Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld	69.81	17,040

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​what is now the Lingenfeld Association; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 6,398 1835 7,273 1871 7,759 1905 7,589 1939 8,748 1950 9,909

year Residents 1961 11,088 1970 11,765 1987 12,581 1997 15,170 2005 15,995 2019 17,040

politics

Association municipal council

The Lingenfeld 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	FWG	total
2019	12	8th	2	10	32 seats
2014	12	9	1	10	32 seats
2009	12	9	-	11	32 seats
2004	12	10	-	10	32 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group of the Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld e. V.

mayor

year	Surname	Political party
1972-1976	Herbert Haaff
1976-1981	Bruno Ulrich
1981-1995	Hans Spann
1995-2011	Jürgen Thomas	FWG
since 2011	Frank Leibeck	SPD

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Frank Leibeck was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with a share of the vote of 68.36%.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “In a shield border divided by black and silver, divided by silver and red, above a silver bar with four black tips speckled-wise a black capital letter L, separated on the right by a blue horseshoe with downward sloping studs, on the left by a blue grape , below over a silver three-mountain, in it a red W, on the right a silver ring, divided by a silver bar and split above by a silver pole, in the lower half a floating eight-pointed silver St. John's Cross, on the left a silver marking in the form of a double-shafted orb from an imperial orb Exaggerated curved capital letter A. "

It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1984 and contains elements of the coats of arms of the local communities.

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld

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 Lingenfeld. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ Pfalz-Express: Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld: Frank Leibeck remains mayor. May 26, 2019, 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