Eich (Rheinhessen)
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Location of Eich within Alzey-Worms district
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| Coordinates: 49°45′00″N 08°23′56″E / 49.75000°N 8.39889°ECoordinates: 49°45′00″N 08°23′56″E / 49.75000°N 8.39889°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Alzey-Worms | |
| Municipal assoc. | Eich | |
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| • Mayor | Klaus Willius (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 21.02 km2 (8.12 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 87 m (285 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 3,462 | |
| • Density | 160/km2 (430/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67575 | |
| Dialling codes | 06246 | |
| Vehicle registration | AZ | |
| Website | www.ortsgemeinde-eich.de | |
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Eich is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, and is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Eich. It lies roughly 15 km north of Worms, and 25 km southwest of Darmstadt.
In 782, Eich had its first documentary mention. It has developed itself from a fishing village to a municipality based on agriculture that also serves as a residential community for workers in nearby cities and towns.
The council is made up of 20 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:
Klaus Willius was reëlected on 7 June 2009 with 75.05% of the valid votes, beating the CDU candidate Christine Müller.
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent a bend azure surmounted by a fish of the field, in a chief gules an acorn palewise and two oakleaves, one bendwise, the other bendwise sinister, conjoined on one stem Or.
The fish refers to the village’s history as a fishing settlement. The blue bend (diagonal stripe) stands for the Rhine. The acorn is a canting charge, referring to the municipality’s name (“acorn” is Eichel, and “oak” is Eiche in German).
The Evangelical parish church came into being in 1839 under Grand-Ducal Hessian provincial master builder from Mainz Ignaz Opfermann’s (1799–1866) building plans.
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