Hangen-Weisheim
| Hangen-Weisheim | ||
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  Hangen-Weisheim | ||
Location of Hangen-Weisheim within Alzey-Worms district  | ||
| Coordinates: 49°42′37″N 8°11′01″E / 49.71028°N 8.18361°ECoordinates: 49°42′37″N 8°11′01″E / 49.71028°N 8.18361°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Alzey-Worms | |
| Municipal assoc. | Westhofen | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Walter Kundel | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.60 km2 (1.78 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 222 m (728 ft) | |
| Population (2012-12-31)[1] | ||
| • Total | 462 | |
| • Density | 100/km2 (260/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55234 | |
| Dialling codes | 06735 | |
| Vehicle registration | AZ | |
| 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.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Westhofen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
History
In 773, Hangen-Weisheim had its first documentary mention.
Politics
Municipal council
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.
Coat of arms
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.
Economy and infrastructure
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, 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
References
- ↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2012". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2013.
- ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage (German)
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
