Bobenheim am Berg

Bobenheim am Berg
Coat of arms
Bobenheim am Berg
Location of Bobenheim am Berg within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates: 49°31′27″N 8°8′54″E / 49.52417°N 8.14833°E / 49.52417; 8.14833Coordinates: 49°31′27″N 8°8′54″E / 49.52417°N 8.14833°E / 49.52417; 8.14833
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Freinsheim
Government
• Mayor	Dietmar Leist (CDU)
Area
• Total	6.33 km2 (2.44 sq mi)
Elevation	196 m (643 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	825
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67273
Dialling codes	06353
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.bobenheim-am-berg.de

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

The municipality lies in the Palatinate and is part of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. Bobenheim am Berg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Freinsheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

In 2007, 43.5% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 30.9% Catholic. Those professing another religious affiliation, or none, amount to 25.6%.

The council is made up of 12 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:

The German blazon reads: In Gold ein schwarzes Gemarkungszeichen.

The last word refers to the unusual charge seen on the escutcheon, a “municipal area sign”. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a bar and a saltire both couped, the arm in sinister chief crossed by a bendlet couped and the two arms in base conjoined by a chevron reversed sable.

The tinctures are the Palatine colours.

The arms were approved in 1983 by the now abolished Regierungsbezirk of Rheinhessen-Pfalz and date from a 1714 court seal.