Dorn-Dürkheim
Dorn-Dürkheim | |
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Location of Dorn-Dürkheim within Mainz-Bingen district | |
Mainz-Bingen | |
Municipal assoc. | Rhein-Selz |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Claus-Dieter Biegler[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 5.60 km2 (2.16 sq mi) |
Elevation | 172 m (564 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 978 |
• Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 67585 |
Dialling codes | 06733 |
Vehicle registration | MZ |
Website | www.vg-rhein-selz.de |
Dorn-Dürkheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
History
In 767, Dorn-Dürkheim had its first documentary mention in a document from the
Since the
Politics
Municipal council
This section needs to be updated.(August 2021) |
The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
CDU | Wählergruppe Schmitt | Total | |
2004 | 7 | 5 | 12 seats |
(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)
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 azure a crozier from base issuant, the crook ending in a rose argent.[3]
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Biebelnheim on the A 63, some 10 km away.
- In the neighbouring centre of Hillesheim a railway connection on the Osthofen–Gau Odernheim line was once available. Service ended on 29 September 1974.
Palaeontology
In 1972, one of Europe's richest mammalian fossil fields was discovered through
References
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Mainz-Bingen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Description of arms in German Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ernst Probst: Deutschland in der Urzeit, p. 283, Munich 1986)
External links
- Official website (in German)