Bissersheim

Bissersheim
Coat of arms
Bissersheim
Location of Bissersheim within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates: 49°32′09″N 08°12′15″E / 49.53583°N 8.20417°E / 49.53583; 8.20417Coordinates: 49°32′09″N 08°12′15″E / 49.53583°N 8.20417°E / 49.53583; 8.20417
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Grünstadt-Land
Government
• Mayor	Christel Poll
Area
• Total	2.57 km2 (0.99 sq mi)
Elevation	141 m (463 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	447
• Density	170/km2 (450/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67281
Dialling codes	06359
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.gruenstadt-land.de

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

Bissersheim lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde. It sits at an elevation of 141 m above sea level near the northern end of the German Wine Route. To the west rises the Haardt, the Palatinate Forest’s eastern edge, and in the east stretches the Upper Rhine Plain. Flowing through the municipality from west to east is the river Eckbach, also regionally known as die Eck.

In 774, Bissersheim had its first documentary mention as Bizziricheshaim.

After the Second World War, it belonged to the district of Frankenthal (Landkreis Frankenthal), until this was abolished in 1969. After the transfer to the new district of Bad Dürkheim had been made the following year, Bissersheim was likewise grouped into the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land in 1972.

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent, in base a dragon slain sans wings and hindlegs vert standing on which Saint Margaret of Antioch vested gules, robed of the first, booted, crined and crowned Or, in her dexter hand a cross-staff bottonny, the lower arm in the dragon’s chest.