Gerolsheim

Gerolsheim
Gerolsheim
Coordinates
Administration
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc. Grünstadt-Land
Mayor Erich Weyer
Basic statistics
Area 4.81 km2 (1.86 sq mi)
Elevation 104 m  (341 ft)
Population 1,670 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 347 /km2 (899 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate DÜW
Postal code 67229
Area code 06238
Website www.gruenstadt-land.de

Gerolsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, which was formed in 1972, and whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.

History

In 915, Gerolsheim had its first documentary mention as Geroltesheimero.

Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal. In 1972 came the amalgamation with the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land.

The Sondermülldeponie Gerolsheim (“Special Garbage Dump”) was closed in 2003 after decades-long efforts by residents to reach that goal.

Religion

In 2007, 41.2% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 29.5% Catholic. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none[2].

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results[3]:

SPD CDU FWG Total
2009 4 3 9 16 seats
2004 5 - 11 16 seats

Mayor

In the mayoral election, 1,421 citizens were eligible to vote, of whom 919 actually went to the polls. Ortsbürgermeister (Mayor) Erich Weyer (FWG) was confirmed in his office with 713 votes (79.7%) against opponent Volker Rossel’s (SPD) 182 votes (20.3%).

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In Rot ein dreizackiges silbernes Fischspeereisen, unten beidseits von je einer goldenen Rose mit blauen Butzen beseitet.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules the head of a trident palewise argent, the points to chief, between two roses Or seeded azure in base.

The arms were approved in 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and go back to a seal from 1541. The trident stands for the church’s patron saint, Leodegar[4].

Famous people

Honorary citizens

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2011. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf. 
  2. ^ KommWis, Stand: 31.12.2007
  3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat [1]
  4. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3

External links

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.