Offenheim

Offenheim
Coat of arms
Offenheim
Location of Offenheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°43′32″N 08°01′49″E / 49.72556°N 8.03028°E / 49.72556; 8.03028Coordinates: 49°43′32″N 08°01′49″E / 49.72556°N 8.03028°E / 49.72556; 8.03028
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor	Karl-Ludwig Becker (SPD)
Area
• Total	13.88 km2 (5.36 sq mi)
Elevation	229 m (751 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	643
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06736
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.offenheim.de

Offenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality, which lies in the middle of the Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland, has 842 ha of woodland, giving it the biggest and almost the only wooded area in Rhenish Hesse. In the Vorholzwald (forest) is found Rhenish Hesse’s highest elevation at 358 m above sea level, the Kappelberg. Offenheim belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

In 786, Offenheim had its first documentary mention in Lorsch Abbey’s donation directory.

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:

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent an oak eradicated leafed of eleven vert, fretted in the boughs a bow unstrung in fesse Or on each end of which an inescutcheon, the dexter sable in bend sinister charged with a lion rampant sinister Or langued and crowned gules, and the sinister gules in bend charged with the head of a bishop’s crozier Or, the point of the crook in the shape of a trefoil in bend sinister.