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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Alzey-Worms

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
5.62 km²

Population
  
916 (31 Dec 2008)

Dialling code
  
06247

State
  
Rhineland-Palatinate

Elevation
  
125 m (410 ft)

Postal codes
  
67591

Local time
  
Thursday 6:27 PM

Postal code
  
67591

Municipal assoc.
  
Monsheim

Mörstadt

Weather
  
12°C, Wind NE at 14 km/h, 70% Humidity

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

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Map of M%C3%B6rstadt, Germany

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.

Town 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:

Mayors

  • Gerd Ermarth - FWG (1979 - 1999)
  • Horst Wendel - SPD (1999–present)

    • 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.

    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

    • References

    Mörstadt Wikipedia
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