Dorn-Dürkheim
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 Dorn-Dürkheim
Location of Dorn-Dürkheim within Mainz-Bingen district
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| Coordinates: 49°46′06″N 8°16′10″E / 49.76833°N 8.26944°ECoordinates: 49°46′06″N 8°16′10″E / 49.76833°N 8.26944°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Mainz-Bingen | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rhein-Selz | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Claus-Dieter Biegler (CDU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.60 km2 (2.16 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 172 m (564 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 942 | |
| • Density | 170/km2 (440/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67585 | |
| Dialling codes | 06733 | |
| Vehicle registration | MZ | |
| Website | Verbandsgemeinde | |
Dorn-Dürkheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
In 767, Dorn-Dürkheim had its first documentary mention in a document from the Lorsch Abbey. The municipality belonged from the 10th to 12th century to the Bishopric of Worms and passed thereafter as a fief to the Lords of Bolanden. Assigned to the Oberamt of Alzey beginning in 1457, Dorn-Dürkheim was temporarily occupied by the French, before the community, along with the whole province of Rhenish Hesse passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim acquired a railway link on the Osthofen–Gau-Odernheim line.
Since the Second World War, Dorn-Dürkheim has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at first in the Alzey-Worms district. The municipality was incorporated into the Verbandsgemeinde of Guntersblum in 1972 and was also assigned to the Mainz-Bingen district.
The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
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