Mörstadt

Mörstadt
Coat of arms of Mörstadt Coat of arms
Mörstadt
Location of Mörstadt within Alzey-Worms district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Monsheim
Government
• Mayor	Horst Wendel (SPD)
Area
• Total	5.62 km2 (2.17 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	959
• Density	170/km2 (440/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67591
Dialling codes	06247
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.moerstadt.de

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

Town 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:

	SPD	FWG	Röder	Total
2009	7	3	2	12 seats

Mayors

• Gerd Ermarth - FWG (1979 - 1999)
• Horst Wendel - SPD (1999–present)

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

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage (German)