Moritzheim
Moritzheim | |
|---|---|
|
Coat of arms of Moritzheim Coat of arms | |
Location of Moritzheim
within Cochem-Zell district | |
| Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Coordinates: Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Cochem-Zell |
| Municipal assoc. | Zell (Mosel) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Adelbert Reis[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.02 km2 (1.55 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 415 m (1,362 ft) |
| Population (Lua error in Module:Settlement_Wikidata at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).)Lua error in Module:Settlement_Wikidata at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |
• Total | Lua error in Module:Settlement_Wikidata at line 197: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56865 |
| Dialling codes | 06545 |
| Vehicle registration | COC |
Moritzheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.
Geography
[edit | edit source]The municipality lies in the Hunsrück at an elevation of some 500 m above sea level. The river Moselle lies roughly 12 km away.
History
[edit | edit source]After a great fire in Senheim on 13 August 1839, thirty families who had been left homeless founded the Kolonie Hoch-Senheim (hoch means “high” in German). The new village was given a new name soon after building work was finished. It was named after the Prussian Landrat (roughly, “district chairman”), Moritz.
Soon thereafter came lean years, and between 1846 and 1852, 23 families from the municipality emigrated to the United States for a better life, leaving only five people living in Moritzheim.
Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Under the Verwaltungsvereinfachungsgesetz (“Administration Simplification Law”) of 28 July 1970, with effect from 7 November 1970, the municipality was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Zell.
Politics
[edit | edit source]Municipal council
[edit | edit source]The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]
Mayor
[edit | edit source]Moritzheim's mayor is Adelbert Reis, and his deputies are Dieter Schug and Alfred Kaspari.[3]
Coat of arms
[edit | edit source]The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable two lions rampant argent armed and langued gules and Or in base gules emerging from which four flames of the same.
Economy and infrastructure
[edit | edit source]Public institutions
[edit | edit source]- Volunteer fire brigade
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Cochem-Zell, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
- ^ Moritzheim’s council Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit | edit source]- Hunsrückreise: Moritzheim (in German)
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
