Gensingen

Gensingen
Coat of arms
Gensingen
Location of Gensingen within Mainz-Bingen district
Coordinates: 49°53′53″N 7°55′41″E / 49.89806°N 7.92806°E / 49.89806; 7.92806Coordinates: 49°53′53″N 7°55′41″E / 49.89806°N 7.92806°E / 49.89806; 7.92806
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Government
• Mayor	Armin Brendel
Area
• Total	8.73 km2 (3.37 sq mi)
Elevation	90 m (300 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	3,898
• Density	450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55457
Dialling codes	06727
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.gensingen.de

Gensingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Gensingen lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach on the river Nahe. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen.

The municipality’s neighbours are Grolsheim, Langenlonsheim, Horrweiler, Laubenheim, Welgesheim, Aspisheim, Biebelsheim, Ockenheim, Bretzenheim, Zotzenheim, Dorsheim, Sprendlingen and Bad Kreuznach-Ippesheim.

The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:

(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Or the letter G between three mullets of six sable.

Apart from the G, which is obviously the municipality’s initial, the arms’ meaning is not known. The six-pointed stars (“mullets of six”) are something of a mystery. The local court seal bore this composition in 1609.

The Evangelical church has an historical Stumm organ built in 1774-1778 and restored in 2000. There are regular concerts.