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Hangen-Weisheim
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Location of Hangen-Weisheim within Alzey-Worms district
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Alzey-Worms |
| Municipal assoc. | Westhofen |
| Mayor | Walter Kundel |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 4.60 km2 (1.78 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 222 m (728 ft) |
| Population | 487 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 106 /km2 (274 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | AZ |
| Postal code | 55234 |
| Area code | 06735 |
| Website | www.hangen-weisheim.de |
Hangen-Weisheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Westhofen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
In 773, Hangen-Weisheim had its first documentary mention.
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]
The municipal council has formed four boards: the building board, the agriculture, winegrowing, environment and graveyard board, the accounting control board and the grape harvest board, thereby showing the municipality’s prevailing character as a winegrowing centre, with boards for both winegrowing and the grape harvest.
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess gules the letter W surmounted by the letter H, except on the latter’s cross stroke where the former surmounts it argent, and lozengy argent and azure, in base a mount of three vert.
Hangen-Weisheim’s economy is overwhelmingly based on agriculture. Besides the six businesses whose main line of work is agriculture and the many wineries and farms run as sidelines, there are also a woodworking shop, a roofing business, an institute for foot care, a carpentry shop, an engine-building business, a roof cleaning business, an insurance agency, a housewares shop, a country inn, a hairdresser’s, a restaurant at the municipal hall and a buchter’s shop also featuring imported items and baked goods. For major purchases, however, such as textiles or furniture, people from Hangen-Weisheim must usually go to the surrounding service-industry centres like Alzey, Worms, Mainz or Mannheim
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