Association municipality of Rülzheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Area :	52.96 km 2
Residents:	15,206 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	287 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GER
Association key :	07 3 34 5006
Association structure:	4 municipalities
Association administration address ; :	At Deutschordensplatz 1 ; 76761 Rülzheim
Website :	www.ruelzheim.de
Mayor :	Matthias Schardt ( CDU )
Location of the community of Rülzheim in the district of Germersheim

The Verbandsgemeinde Rülzheim is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Germersheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The Verbandsgemeinde has four independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous local community of Rülzheim .

Association members communities

Local parish	Area (km²)	Residents
Heard	18.46	2,596
Kuhardt	4.88	1,857
Leimersheim	12.96	2,556
Rülzheim	16.66	8,197
Association municipality of Rülzheim	52.96	15.206

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The Verbandsgemeinde Rülzheim was re-established in 1972, like all the association communities in the then administrative district Rheinhessen-Pfalz , on the basis of the “Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate”.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	5,509
1835	6.277
1871	6,435
1905	7,066
1939	8,580
1950	9,116

year	Residents
1961	10,026
1970	11,142
1987	12,651
1997	14,702
2005	14,786
2019	15.206

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Rülzheim 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. Before the 2019 election, the municipal council had 28 council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	AfD	FDP	GREEN	Active	FWG	total
2019	3	11	4th	1	4th	7th	2	32 seats
2014	4th	13	-	1	1	8th	1	28 seats
2009	5	12	-	-	2	7th	2	28 seats
2004	6th	17th	-	0	2	6th	1	32 seats

Active = Active Citizens e. V.
FWG = Free Voters Group Rülzheim e. V.

mayor

The mayor is directly elected for a term of eight years.

In the election on May 25, 2014, Matthias Schardt (CDU) was elected with 58.9 percent approval. He replaces Reiner Hör, who has been in office since 2006 and is also the local mayor of Rülzheim.

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: “In a shield border of blue and gold, quartered with silver and black, with a pinnacle, top right a silver mark in the form of a fallen V, top left a black horseshoe with downward sloping studs, bottom right a black fish hook, bottom left a armored silver arm, holding a silver cross clasp. "

It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1980 and contains figures from the coats of arms of the four local communities.

Web links

Association municipality of Rülzheim

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 municipal council elections 2019 Rülzheim. Retrieved August 15, 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