Weisenheim am Berg
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Location of Weisenheim am Berg within Bad Dürkheim district
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| Coordinates: 49°30′43″N 08°09′01″E / 49.51194°N 8.15028°ECoordinates: 49°30′43″N 08°09′01″E / 49.51194°N 8.15028°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Dürkheim | |
| Municipal assoc. | Freinsheim | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Georg Blaul (CDU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 9.21 km2 (3.56 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 230 m (750 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 1,718 | |
| • Density | 190/km2 (480/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67273 | |
| Dialling codes | 06353 | |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW | |
| Website | www.weisenheim.de | |
Weisenheim am Berg (Palatine German: Weisrem, or to distinguish it from Weisenheim am Sand, Weisemberg) 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 on the edge of the Haardt range in the Palatinate. Woods cover 54.7% of the municipal area. Weisenheim am Berg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Freinsheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Clockwise from the north, these are Bobenheim am Berg, Herxheim am Berg, and Altleiningen.
In 771, Weisenheim am Berg had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex.
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:
The German blazon reads: Von Silber und Schwarz geteilt, oben die miteinander verschlungenen schwarzen Großbuchstaben WAB, unten ein sechsstrahliger goldener Stern, beseitet von je einer silbernen Rose mit goldenem Butzen.
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess argent the letters W, A and B in fess ligatured sable, and sable a mullet Or between two roses of the first seeded of the third.
The arms go back to a village seal from 1764. The charges in the escutcheon's lower half are unclear. They could be a reference to the old local court.
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