Esselborn
Esselborn | |
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Esselborn
within Alzey-Worms district | |
 Interactive map of Esselborn | |
  Location within Germany  Location within Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| Coordinates: 49°42′55″N 08°07′07″E / 49.71528°N 8.11861°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Alzey-Worms |
| Municipal assoc. | Alzey-Land |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Jan Weindorf[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.10 km2 (1.58 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 229 m (751 ft) |
| Population (2025-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 391 |
| • Density | 95.4/km2 (247/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55234 |
| Dialling codes | 06731 |
| Vehicle registration | AZ |
| Website | www.gemeinde-esselborn.de |
Esselborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[edit]The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse.
History
[edit]In 763, Esselborn had its first documentary mention. Held at first by the Lords of Strahlenberg, Esselborn was then an Electoral Palatinate possession as of 1408.
Politics
[edit]Town council
[edit]The council is made up of 8 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:[3]
| Oberhellmann | Reßler | Total | |
| 2009 | 5 | 3 | 8 seats |
In 2004 there was an election by majority vote.
Coat of arms
[edit]The municipality's arms might be described thus: Argent two batons per saltire gules, the one in bend sinister surmounting the other, fastened thereto with a nail, and with a branch couped palewise in base dexter, in base a rose twig vert with one rose of the second barbed and seeded proper.
References
[edit]- ↑ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- ↑ "Bevölkerungsstand von Land, Landkreisen, Gemeinden und Verbandsgemeinden 2025 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2022)" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz.
- ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
External links
[edit]- Esselborn in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
- Esselborn hat jetzt seinen siebten Brunnen – Vermutlich bis 1902 wurde aus Vorgänger Wasser zum Brotbacken geschöpft / Zehn sollen es werden from the Rhein Main Presse of 28 July 2008 (in German)
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