Wonsheim

Wonsheim
Coat of arms
Wonsheim
Location of Wonsheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°46′59″N 7°57′45″E / 49.78306°N 7.96250°E / 49.78306; 7.96250Coordinates: 49°46′59″N 7°57′45″E / 49.78306°N 7.96250°E / 49.78306; 7.96250
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Wöllstein
Government
• Mayor	Rudolf Haas
Area
• Total	8.79 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Elevation	178 m (584 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	902
• Density	100/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55599
Dialling codes	06703
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.wonsheim-rhh.de

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

As a winegrowing centre, Wonsheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of the wine region of Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wöllstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Through the municipality flows the river Dunselbach.

On 10 June 800, Wonsheim had its first documentary mention in a donation document from Fulda Abbey as Vuanesheim.

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Chapé, lozengy argent and azure, Or an orb banded and charged with a cross bottonnée gules both gemmed of the first and sable a lion rampant of the third armed, langued and crowned of the fourth.

Wonsheim lies near Autobahnen A 61 and A 63.

Town’s official webpage] (in German)