Orbis, Rhineland-Palatinate

Orbis is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to with 15 other municipalities in the municipality Kirchheimbolanden.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

The municipality is situated approximately 40 km southwest of Mainz in the hill country between the Rhine Hesse and the Palatinate mountains. In the area of Orbis springs from the river Selz, which flows into the Rhine at Ingelheim. At Orbis includes the living space Leithof.

Neighboring municipalities are Morschheim in the east, the Kirchheimbolandener district heath in the south and upper meadows in the West.

History

The place name in Changing Times

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Orbis consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " split from silver and blue, right between two growing green fir trees upright red key, left rotbewehrter and bezungter golden lion. "

It was approved by the Rhineland - Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in Mainz on 17 February 1964.

The coat of arms of Orbis is a new creation without seal template. With the Nassauer lion is referred to the local government by the end of the 18th century, the firs accordance with the interpretation of the name as a dense forest and the key recalls the Kaplaneikirche St. Peter to Orbis, the King Frederick II in 1214 the Holy grave - has transferred convent in Speyer. Also Albisheim to whose care Orbis belonged since 1614, had a Peter - patronage before the Reformation.

Economy and infrastructure

Southeast runs the A 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz). In Kirchheimbolanden is a railway station of thunder mountain railway.

Sons and daughters of the town

Donnersbergkreis Kirchheimbolanden (Verbandsgemeinde) Rhenish Hesse Oberwiesen Municipal council Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Alsenz Bayerfeld-Steckweiler Bennhausen Biedesheim Bischheim, Germany Bisterschied Breunigweiler Bubenheim Dannenfels Dielkirchen Dreisen Einselthum Eisenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate Falkenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate Finkenbach-Gersweiler Gauersheim Gaugrehweiler Gehrweiler Gerbach Gonbach Gundersweiler Ilbesheim Immesheim Imsbach Imsweiler Jakobsweiler Kalkofen Katzenbach, Germany Kerzenheim Kriegsfeld Lautersheim Lohnsfeld Marnheim Niederhausen an der Appel Niedermoschel Oberhausen an der Appel Obermoschel Oberndorf, Rhineland-Palatinate Ottersheim Ramsen, Rhineland-Palatinate Ransweiler Rathskirchen Reichsthal Rittersheim Rockenhausen Ruppertsecken Sankt Alban Schiersfeld Schweisweiler Seelen Sippersfeld Sitters Stahlberg Steinbach am Donnersberg Stetten, Rhineland-Palatinate Teschenmoschel Unkenbach Waldgrehweiler Wartenberg-Rohrbach Weitersweiler Winnweiler Winterborn Zellertal
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