Gerolsheim

Gerolsheim
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Gerolsheim within Bad Dürkheim district
Gerolsheim Show map of Germany Gerolsheim Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 49°32′50″N 08°15′50″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Leiningerland
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Erich Weyer[1]
Area
• Total	4.81 km^2 (1.86 sq mi)
Elevation	104 m (341 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,811
• Density	380/km^2 (980/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	67229
Dialling codes	06238
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.gerolsheim.de

Gerolsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, which was formed in 2018, and whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.

History

In 915, Gerolsheim had its first documentary mention as Geroltesheimero.

Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal. In 1972 came the amalgamation with the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land.

The Sondermülldeponie Gerolsheim (“Special Garbage Dump”) was closed in 2003 after decades-long efforts by residents to reach that goal.

Religion

In 2007, 41.2% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 29.5% Catholic. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none.[3]

Politics

Gerolsheim town hall

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 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:[4]

	SPD	CDU	FWG	Total
2009	4	3	9	16 seats
2004	5	-	11	16 seats

Mayor

In the mayoral election, 1,421 citizens were eligible to vote, of whom 919 actually went to the polls. Ortsbürgermeister (Mayor) Erich Weyer (FWG) was confirmed in his office with 713 votes (79.7%) against opponent Volker Rossel’s (SPD) 182 votes (20.3%).

Coat of arms

In Rot ein dreizackiges silbernes Fischspeereisen, unten beidseits von je einer goldenen Rose mit blauen Butzen beseitet.

The municipality’s arms is described thus: In Rot ein dreizackiges silbernes Fischspeereisen, unten beidseits von je einer goldenen Rose mit blauen Butzen beseitet. It might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules the head of a trident palewise argent, the points to chief, between two roses Or seeded azure in base.

The arms were approved in 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and go back to a seal from 1541. The trident stands for the church’s patron saint, Leodegar.[5]

Famous people

Honorary citizens

• 23 October 2004 Adolf Buch, 40 years as a municipal politician, just under 25 of which as mayor
• 23 October 2004 Ilse Buch (Adolf Buch’s wife), 40 years of social and club work

Further reading

• Alexander Thon: Gerolsheim. In: Jürgen Keddigkeit (Hrsg.): Pfälzisches Burgenlexikon. Beiträge zur pfälzischen Geschichte Bd. 12/2, Institut für Pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, Kaiserslautern 2002, S. 130-188, ISBN 3-927754-48-X.

References

1. Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
2. "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
3. KommWis, Stand: 31.12.2007 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
4. Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
5. Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3

External links

• Gerolsheim in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)