Ober-Flörsheim

Ober-Flörsheim
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Ober-Flörsheim
Location of Ober-Flörsheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°40′59″N 08°09′19″E / 49.68306°N 8.15528°E / 49.68306; 8.15528Coordinates: 49°40′59″N 08°09′19″E / 49.68306°N 8.15528°E / 49.68306; 8.15528
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor	Sascha Leonhardt
Area
• Total	10.24 km2 (3.95 sq mi)
Elevation	244 m (801 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,209
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06735
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.ober-floersheim.de

Ober-Flörsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Ober-Flörsheim lies on a high plateau in the Rhenish Hesse wine region. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

In 776, Flarlesheim superiori had its first documentary mention in a donation document from Lorsch Abbey. From 1237 until the late 18th century, the Teutonic Knights ran a commandry in the village. From 1506, Ober-Flörsheim belonged to Electoral Palatinate and was made part of the Oberamt of Alzey. In the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops laid waste the commandry and the village. In 1689, the village was dealt a further blow by French troops under King Louis XIV when they laid the Palatinate waste during the Nine Years' War.

During the wars in the wake of the French Revolution, there was a battle on 30 March 1793 near Ober-Flörsheim in which the Prussians beat the French. Even so, this defeat would not thwart France’s ultimate success in the campaign, and thereby Ober-Flörsheim, along with the rest of the territories on the Rhine’s left bank, was annexed by France in 1797, and the village became part of the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German).