Einhausen, Hesse

Einhausen

Coat of arms

Einhausen

Location of Einhausen within Bergstraße district

Coordinates: 49°41′0″N 8°33′0″E / 49.68333°N 8.55000°ECoordinates: 49°41′0″N 8°33′0″E / 49.68333°N 8.55000°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Helmut Glanzner

Area

• Total

26.67 km² (10.30 sq mi)

Elevation

93 m (305 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

6,281

• Density

240/km² (610/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

64683

06251

Website

Einhausen is a community in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany, some 15 km east of Worms.

Einhausen lies on the Bergstraße in the Hessisches Ried and belongs the northeast Rhine valley, which has a rather favourable climate. Surrounding the community, through which flows the Weschnitz, are woods and cultivated land.

Einhausen borders in the north on the community of Groß-Rohrheim and the town of Gernsheim (Groß-Gerau district), in the east on the towns of Bensheim and Lorsch, in the south on the town of Bürstadt and in the west on the community of Biblis.

Einhausen officially consists of only one Ortsteil; however, the historical distinction between Groß-Hausen and Klein-Hausen is still heard in speech.

The community was donated in 768 under the name Husun to the Lorsch Abbey. In the course of the Reformation and the Counterreformation there arose two politically and ecclesiastically divided communities: Groß-Hausen (Protestant), and Klein-Hausen (Catholic) which contradictorily became the larger of the two. On 1 April 1937, the two communities were merged into the community of Einhausen. (Older residents often tell the visitor that this merger was one of many mergers endorsed and signed into effect by Adolf Hitler.) As mentioned earlier, the historical distinction between Groß-Hausen and Klein-Hausen is still heard in speech today, even by younger residents.

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

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