Sankt Goar-Oberwesel

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The municipality Sankt Goar - Oberwesel is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. The municipality includes the cities of Oberwesel and St. Goar and six independent local churches, the administrative headquarters are in the town of Oberwesel. The administrative territory of the municipality lies on the left bank of the Rhine in the World Heritage Site Middle Rhine Valley.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

History

The municipality was formed on 22 April 1972, as the " Twelfth state law on administrative simplification in the land of Rhineland -Palatinate ."

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council Sankt Goar - Oberwesel consists of 24 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a 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 description is: coat of arms divided, split up; top right in a blue gold -winning, gezungter and reinforced, herschauender red lion, top left in silver a red cross bar; down in a Gold rotbewehrter and gezungter black eagle.

The coat of arms refers, upper right, lower for county Katzenelenbogen, top left, to the Electorate of Trier. The lower panel refers to the black eagle in gold on the former free imperial city of Oberwesel.