Lonsheim
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Lonsheim | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Lonsheim within Alzey-Worms district  | |
  Lonsheim  Lonsheim | |
| Coordinates: 49°46′43″N 08°04′36″E / 49.77861°N 8.07667°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Alzey-Worms |
| Municipal assoc. | Alzey-Land |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Harald Denne[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.56 km2 (1.76 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 238 m (781 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 590 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55237 |
| Dialling codes | 06734 |
| Vehicle registration | AZ |
Lonsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Location
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey. The small, rural, agricultural, winegrowing centre lies in a hollow at the foot of the wooded “Hemm” and has vineyards on all sides. It is in what is known as the Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland (Rheinhessische Schweiz).
On a clear day, one can see from Lonsheim all the way to Frankfurt am Main.
Wineries
Lonsheim has the Mandelberg and Schönberg wineries, which are part of the winemaking appellation – Weingroßlage – of Adelberg. All together, vineyards cover 139 ha.
Neighbouring municipalities
Lonsheim’s neighbours are Bornheim, Bermersheim vor der Höhe and Heimersheim (an outlying centre of Alzey).
History
The village was in the beginning held by the Waldgraves of Kyrburg. Until 1398, the family Bock von Lonsheim held it as a fief, and thereafter so did other noble families (at Albig and Heppenheim) until it passed to the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1679.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
Coat of arms
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess Or a demi-lion rampant gules armed and langued argent, and gules a cross pattée of the first.
