Freinsheim (Verbandsgemeinde)

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The community association Freinsheim is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland- Palatinate. The municipality includes the town Freinsheim and seven independent local churches, the council is based in the eponymous city Freinsheim.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

History

The community association Freinsheim in 1972, as all unitary councils in the former administrative district of Rheinhessen- Pfalz, on the basis of the " Thirteenth state law on administrative simplification in the land of Rhineland -Palatinate " re-formed. Until then, from the Bavarian period (1816-1946) were derived administrative structures.

Population Development

The development of the population based on the present territory of the municipality Freinsheim; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council Freinsheim consists of 28 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 coat of arms of the municipality is quartered. Law stands on top of a light blue background, red and reinforced bezungt, a rather inverted silver eagle, left perched on a golden ground obliquely a silver key pointing to the bottom left to the top. Law lies down on a golden background a blue grape, standing on a black background left, armored red and bezungt, a rather inverted golden lion.

The eagle symbolizes the old Counts of Leiningen, the key is the former Bishopric of Worms, the lion, the Palatinate. The blue grape makes it clear that was set early in the cultivation of red grape varieties in the room Freinsheim that is occupied almost half of the area under vines.