Vollmersweiler

Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Vollmersweiler within Germersheim district

(2019–24) Roland Kelemen^[1]Area

• Total2.18 km² (0.84 sq mi)Elevation

142 m (466 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total209 • Density96/km² (250/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

76744

Dialling codes06340Vehicle registrationGERWebsitewww.vg-kandel.de

Vollmersweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Location

The village is located in the southern Palatinate between Karlsruhe and Landau. Since 1972 the community has belonged to the Kandel municipal association, whose administrative headquarters is in the town of Kandel.

History

Vollmersweiler once belonged to the lords of Guttenberg castle. For a time in the 18th century it shared a Schultheiß with the town of Niederotterbach on the west.

Religion

In 2007, 50% of the population was Protestant and 24.8% Catholic. The remainder belonged to a different religion or none.^[3]

Government

The council consists of seven council members, including the mayor. It was elected in municipal elections on June 13, 2004. Elvira Oberle (SPD) has been Mayor of since 1991.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: In red a slanting silver plowblade.

It was approved in 1931 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and goes back to a common judicial seal of and Niederotterbach from the year 1581.^[4]

References

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Germersheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
^ KommWis, Stand: 30.11.2007 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
^ Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3