Mörstadt

Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

(2019–24) Stephan Hammer^[1]Area • Total5.62 km² (2.17 sq mi)Elevation125 m (410 ft)Population • Total1,072 • Density190/km² (490/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codesDialling codes06247Vehicle registrationAZWebsitewww.moerstadt.de

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

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and is a winegrowing centre. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Monsheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Politics

Municipal council

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:^[3]

	SPD	FWG	Röder	Total
2009	7	3	2	12 seats

Mayors

• Gerd Ermarth - FWG (1979–1999)
• Horst Wendel - SPD (1999–2019)
• Stephan Hammer - FWG (since 2019)

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure in chief two mullets Or, in base a daisy argent seeded of the second.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

• Village church from 1670 with a Stumm organ

Theatre

• Since 2005, Mörstadt has had at its disposal a lakeside stage on the Woog (a local word for “pond”).

Famous people

• Amalie Haizinger, actress was born here in 1800

Honorary citizens

• Gerd Ermarth
• Horst Wendel

References

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage (in German)