Uelversheim

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Uelversheim

Location of Uelversheim within Mainz-Bingen district

Coordinates: 49°48′36″N 08°17′18″E / 49.81000°N 8.28833°ECoordinates: 49°48′36″N 08°17′18″E / 49.81000°N 8.28833°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Stefan Ebling (SPD)

Area

• Total

7.49 km² (2.89 sq mi)

Elevation

190 m (620 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

1,071

• Density

140/km² (370/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55278

06249

Website

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

Uelversheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”, and belongs to the Berggemeinden (“Mountain Municipalities”, besides Uelversheim these are the neighbouring centres of Weinolsheim, Dolgesheim and Eimsheim)

Uelversheim is a typical winegrowing centre, with almost a fourth of its area given over to this pursuit. Wine is also grown in an exclave between Dienheim and Guntersblum, which along with the actual community forms part of Uelversheim’s municipal area.

In 766, Uelversheim had its first documentary mention. Digs, however, confirm that the area was earlier substantially settled by Celts and Germanic peoples.

Over lengthy times in the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the Counts of Leiningen who built a castle here as a summer residence.

Uelversheim is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.

The Municipal Council is made up of 17 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:

(as of municipal election held on 13 June 2004)

Elections in 2014:

The Evangelical church was built in 1722 by a master builder from Freiburg in the unique shape of a regular octagon. It is to this unusual church that the Uelversheim nickname die Merkwerdische can be traced, merkwerdisch being a local variation of the German word merkwürdig – “odd”.

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