Mörstadt

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Template:Infobox German location Mörstadt is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and is a winegrowing centre. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Monsheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 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:[1]

SPD FWG Röder Total
2009 7 3 2 12 seats

Mayors

  • Gerd Ermarth - FWG (1979–1999)
  • Horst Wendel - SPD (1999–2019)
  • Stephan Hammer - FWG (since 2019)

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure in chief two mullets Or, in base a daisy argent seeded of the second.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

  • Village church from 1670 with a Stumm organ

Theatre

  • Since 2005, Mörstadt has had at its disposal a lakeside stage on the Woog (a local word for “pond”).

Famous people

Honorary citizens

  • Gerd Ermarth
  • Horst Wendel

References

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