Image Coa: | DEU Hangen-Weisheim COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 49.7103°N 8.1836°W |
Image Plan: | Hangen-Weisheim in AZ.svg |
State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
District: | Alzey-Worms |
Verbandsgemeinde: | Wonnegau |
Elevation: | 222 |
Area: | 4.60 |
Postal Code: | 55234 |
Area Code: | 06735 |
Licence: | AZ |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 3 31 039 |
Website: | hangen-weisheim.de |
Mayor: | Harald Pflaume[1] |
Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Hangen-Weisheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wonnegau, whose seat is in Osthofen.
In 773, Hangen-Weisheim had its first documentary mention.
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.[2]
The municipal council has formed four boards: the building board, the agriculture, winegrowing, environment and graveyard board, the accounting control board and the grape harvest board, thereby showing the municipality's prevailing character as a winegrowing centre, with boards for both winegrowing and the grape harvest.
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess gules the letter W surmounted by the letter H, except on the latter's cross stroke where the former surmounts it argent, and lozengy argent and azure, in base a mount of three vert.
Hangen-Weisheim's economy is overwhelmingly based on agriculture. Besides the six businesses whose main line of work is agriculture and the many wineries and farms run as sidelines, there are also a woodworking shop, a roofing business, an institute for foot care, a carpentry shop, an engine-building business, a roof cleaning business, an insurance agency, a housewares shop, a country inn, a hairdresser, a restaurant at the municipal hall and a buchter's shop also featuring imported items and baked goods. For major purchases, however, such as textiles or furniture, people from Hangen-Weisheim must usually go to the surrounding service-industry centres like Alzey, Worms, Mainz or Mannheim