Monzernheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
History
Monzernheim is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the
city wall of Worms.
[C. Van De Kieft and J. F. Niermeyer, eds. (1967), Elenchus fontium historiae urbanae (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 43–44.]
Geography
Location
As a
winegrowing centre, Monzernheim lies in Germany's biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of
Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the
Verbandsgemeinde of
Wonnegau, whose seat is in
Osthofen.
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.
[ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and argent a bunch of grapes palewise leafed of two and couped vert.
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