Nierstein-Oppenheim
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The community association Nierstein - Oppenheim is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland- Palatinate. The municipality includes the towns Oppenheim and Nierstein and nine independent local churches, the administrative headquarters are in the town of Oppenheim. On 1 July 2014, the municipality Guntersblum is incorporated into the municipality Nierstein - Oppenheim. This creates the new community association Rhein- Selz.
Association members of communities
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Population Development
The development of the population based on the territory of the present municipality Nierstein - Oppenheim; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Association of municipal
The association council Nierstein - Oppenheim consists of 40 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the federation council:
Coat of arms
The blazon reads. " In eight-fold split of gold and red sign board of gold and black split up a rotbewehrter black eagle, below rotgewehrter, bezungter - and - crowned golden lion, beseitet each a six-pointed gold star ".
Fusion
As part of local government reform in the state of Rhineland -Palatinate, the municipality Guntersblum is incorporated into the municipality Nierstein - Oppenheim. The reason may include, but for the state of Rhineland -Palatinate rather small number of inhabitants of the municipality Guntersblum and the consequent avoidable administrative costs. The official business of the new municipality with the name " community association Rhein- Selz " is scheduled to begin on 1 July 2014. First, the new municipality in Leininger castle is in Guntersblum have a branch office. The new community association Rhein- Selz with around 40,000 citizens should be one of the largest unitary councils in Rhineland -Palatinate.
On 13 December 2013, the factions of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate and of 90/The Greens voted in Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag of Rhineland- Palatinate for a forced merger of the two unitary councils after a voluntary merger failed. The Group of the CDU Rhineland -Palatinate voted against the merger.