Ebertsheim

Ebertsheim
Coat of arms
Ebertsheim
Location of Ebertsheim within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates: 49°34′06″N 08°06′31″E / 49.56833°N 8.10861°E / 49.56833; 8.10861Coordinates: 49°34′06″N 08°06′31″E / 49.56833°N 8.10861°E / 49.56833; 8.10861
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Grünstadt-Land
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Linska (CDU)
Area
• Total	5.29 km2 (2.04 sq mi)
Elevation	237 m (778 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,242
• Density	230/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67280
Dialling codes	06359
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.ebertsheim.de

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

The municipality 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. Ebertsheim, with its Ortsbezirk of Rodenbach lies in the historic Leiningerland on the river Eisbach in the eastern Eis valley, just short of where this opens out at the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest onto the uplands of the Weinstraße region (as distinct from the Deutsche Weinstraße – or German Wine Route – itself) and the Upper Rhine Plain.

A Frankish settlement called Eberolfsheim had its first documentary mention in 765 in the Lorsch codex. The first settlements here, however, are considerably older, as witnessed by finds from La Tène times about 500 BC and Roman times about 100 BC. Ebertsheim was held uninterruptedly beginning in the Middle Ages by the Counts of Leiningen. Recalling this today is Leininger Straße (a street). Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal.

On 7 July 1969, within the framework of the administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the small municipality of Rodenbach, which until then had belonged to the neighbouring, and now likewise abolished district of Kirchheimbolanden, and the considerably bigger centre of Ebertsheim were merged to form today’s municipality. The name Rodenbach is still used in village life to tag sites or clubs. In 1972, the municipality became a constituent part of the new Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land. The district administration designated Rodenbach as an Ortsbezirk in 2006, giving it the right to document this status on the placename sign and to elect a local leader (Ortsvorsteher) and a deputy.