Wahlheim

This article explains the place Wahlheim; for other meanings see Wahlheim (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Alzey Land
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.27 km 2
Residents:	576 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	176 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06731
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 067
Address of the municipal administration:	Kelleracker 1 55234 Wahlheim
Website :	www.wahlheim-rheinhessen.de
Local Mayor :	Ralph Fuchs
Location of the local community Wahlheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Wahlheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

geography

The Sandmühle residential area also belongs to Wahlheim .

By Wahlheim flowing Aufspringbach . Wahlheim is the center of the “Kühlen Grund”.

Neighboring communities are Esselborn , Freimersheim (Rheinhessen) and Kettenheim .

history

The village of Wahlheim in the Kettenheimer Grund , once called Walaheim , belonged to Alzey Castle . In 1400 the Count Palatine Ruprecht III bought. from the castle man Heinrich Bock von Lonsheim two parts of the village and district . Since 1633 the place belonged to the Electoral Palatinate . In the area there was also an estate belonging to the Waida monastery near Dautenheim . The twenty-tube fountain (called "Blickenbrunnen"), which once stood between the two districts, was restored in 1994.

Population development

The development of the population of Wahlheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	276
1835	498
1871	400
1905	361
1939	346

year	Residents
1950	491
1961	425
1970	402
1978	443
1987	434

year	Residents
1997	556
2005	590
2011	596
2017	583
2019	576

politics

Municipal council

town hall

The council in Wahlheim consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

• 1989 to 1994: Heiner Bus; SPD
• 1994 to 1999: Arno Schröder
• 1999 to 2000: Harald Hammer
• 2000 to 2014: Heiner Bus; SPD
• since 2014: Ralph Fuchs

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Ralph Fuchs was confirmed in office with 85.25% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Two green ears of wheat and three floating red poppy capsules above the green three-mountain in silver."

Vineyards

• Rogues in the large Sybillenstein area with 131  ha .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Wahlheim

Others

Wahlheim bei Alzey is not the village of the same name that entered world literature through The Sorrows of Young Werther . Its role model is rather Garbenheim near Wetzlar.

Web links

Commons : Wahlheim  - Collection of Images

• Local community Wahlheim
• Information from VG Alzey-Land about the local community Wahlheim
• Literature about Wahlheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 127 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 11, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Wahlheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 7, 2019 (see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results).