Schwabenheim an der Selz
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Location of Schwabenheim an der Selz within Mainz-Bingen district
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| Coordinates: 49°55′58″N 8°5′39″E / 49.93278°N 8.09417°ECoordinates: 49°55′58″N 8°5′39″E / 49.93278°N 8.09417°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Mainz-Bingen | |
| Municipal assoc. | Gau-Algesheim | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Peter Merz (Wählergruppe Merz) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 9.49 km2 (3.66 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 140 m (460 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 2,576 | |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55270 | |
| Dialling codes | 06130 | |
| Vehicle registration | MZ | |
| Website | www.schwabenheim.de | |
Schwabenheim an der Selz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in the north of Rhenish Hesse, south of Ingelheim on the east bank of the Selz.
Clockwise from the north, these are Ingelheim am Rhein with its outlying centre of Groß-Winternheim, the Verbandsgemeinde of Heidesheim am Rhein, Stadecken-Elsheim in the Verbandsgemeinde of Nieder-Olm and Bubenheim in the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim.
In terms of sovereignty, Schwabenheim belonged as an Imperial Village with Imperial immediacy to the Ingelheimer Grund
As part of the Ingelheimer Grund, Schwabenheim had its own local court on which sat the Ortsschultheiß (roughly “reeve”) and eight Schöffen (roughly “lay jurists”).
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per pale Or and sable a double-headed Imperial Eagle displayed counterchanged armed, beaked and langued gules.
The double-headed eagle motif seen in today’s arms goes back to a 15th-century court seal and a municipal seal from 1531. Both these seals showed a one-headed eagle, however. The eagle stood for Schwabenheim’s – then still known as Sauer-Schwabenheim – membership among the Imperial Villages of the Ingelheimer Grund that passed in 1407 to the Electorate of the Palatinate. From 1761, the double-headed Imperial Eagle is seen in the seal. Given that the Grand Duchy of Hesse took over Schwabenheim in 1816, and that the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Schwabenheim’s arms have been changed a few times. After the Second World War, the municipality bore the old Electorate of the Palatinate arms. This escutcheon, however, satisfied nobody. The unanimous opinion was that the Imperial Eagle belonged back in the arms. At two Wiesbaden state archive councillors’ suggestion in 1983, arms that were party per pale (that is, split down the middle), gold on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side and black on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side with the double-headed Imperial Eagle “counterchanged” (that is, on each side taking the tincture of the field on the other side; this is called in verwechselten Farben – in changed colours – in German) were put forth for approval and later the same year, the approval was granted.
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