Weisenheim am Berg

Weisenheim am Berg
Municipality
Former school building by August von Voit
Coat of arms
Location of Weisenheim am Berg within Bad Dürkheim district
Weisenheim am Berg Weisenheim am Berg
Coordinates: 49°30′43″N 08°09′01″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Freinsheim
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Joachim Udo Schleweis (CDU)
Area
• Total	9.21 km2 (3.56 sq mi)
Elevation	230 m (750 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,732
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Geography

Location

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.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, these are Bobenheim am Berg, Herxheim am Berg, Leistadt and Altleiningen.

History

In 771, Weisenheim am Berg had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex.

Politics

Municipal council

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:

	SPD	CDU	FDP	Total
2009	6	9	1	16 seats
2004	6	9	1	16 seats

Coat of arms

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.

The arms have been borne since 4 April 1984.

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  Coat of arms
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  "Banner" (vertical flag for hoisting from a horizontal pole)

Town partnerships

Weisenheim am Berg fosters partnerships with the following places:

• Plaus (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaus]), South Tyrol, Italy
• Saint-Gengoux-le-National, Saône-et-Loire, France
• Niederdorla, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thuringia

Culture and sightseeing

Ungeheuersee

Natural monuments

The nearby Ungeheuersee reservoir, surrounded by mixed forest, is protected as a natural monument.

Regular events

• At the long weekend around Ascension Day, Weisenheim’s biggest regular event is held, the traditional Partnership, Wine and Homeland Festival.
• Each year on the next to last weekend in August, the Kerwe, a wine festival, is held.
• On the Sunday before Volkstrauertag, the Stutzenfest is held at which new citizens are initiated.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

To the east runs Bundesstraße 271, which in the north leads to the Autobahn A 6. In Herxheim am Berg is a railway station on the Pfälzische Nordbahn. From Bad Dürkheim runs the Rhein-Haardtbahn to Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Public transport is integrated into the VRN, whose fares therefore apply.

Education

Weisenheim has one kindergarten and one primary and regional school.

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

• Otto Georgens, auxiliary bishop in the Bishopric of Speyer

External links

• Official website (in German)